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The University of Southampton
Psychology graduate leavers pack

Why Southampton?

If you choose to study at Southampton, you’ll work with internationally respected academics and experience world-leading research as it happens, with access to state-of-the-art resources. You will become part of the close-knit Postgraduate Society within your area of study as well as the wider, 5,000-strong postgraduate student community.

Postgraduate study at Southampton

Why choose Psychology at Southampton?

On all measures of academic excellence the Psychology academic unit at Southampton has received rankings which place it among the leading centres in Britain in terms of research output and expertise. It has continued to receive high scores in the RAE exercises and it has received a CHE Excellence award for postgraduate studies. In terms of publications, the unit's output per capita is one of the highest in the country, and it also has a successful record of raising research funding and grants from organisations such as the ESRC and EPSRC.

Within the Psychology academic unit, we generally have well over 100 full- and part-time postgraduate research students, together forming a lively, close-knit but outward-looking community. Students from our postgraduate research programmes are complemented by those registered on one of our range of postgraduate taught programmes.

All postgraduates are supervised by a team of academic staff committed to high quality research and teaching, supported by an experienced administrative team. Some students have co-supervision from colleagues from other related disciplines such as Health Sciences, Medicine and Social Sciences.

Contact

For further information about postgraduate study at Psychology, University of Southampton, please visit:
Postgraduate Study in Psychology

Or, contact:

Postgraduate Taught admissions:
PGTapply.FSHS@soton.ac.uk

Postgraduate Research admissions:
Psych-pgr.fshs@soton.ac.uk

How to Apply?

Applications can be made online here:
How to Apply

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