University of Southampton (reviews)

The University of Southampton offers many chances for students to review the quality of their lectures which allows lecturers to adapt their style and improve the content they post.
The University also provides a lot of support to entrepreneurs seeking to start their own businesses, with a whole team dedicated to helping students learn the step by step process of starting a business.

The course content is very thorough and well-put. But in many of the courses, the teaching staff are not well-equipped in teaching the course given to them. It just becomes a session of reading through the presentation, rather than teaching about the topic.

The University of Southampton is a welcoming space, open for students to express themselves and their worries about certain current issues. Given the recent cost of living crisis, for example, the university has promoted ways to support students who are affected by increasing costs. Some examples of this would be breakfasts offered on certain days, and the student advice centre, which offers help with living circumstances as well as other areas of wellbeing.

Despite getting the grades to get onto my course at the University of Southampton, I struggled immensely with every aspect of my university experience. From attending lectures to completing assignments, I found the whole transition from school to university difficult. From the beginning, I found my schedule to be absolutely jam packed with barely any time for me to relax or socialise, and I had early starts every single day. With my heavy workload and very little time to socialise, I was quickly feeling overwhelmed and underprepared. Even then, my days were so full that sometimes I had to skip lunch so that I could make it to class on time. Then there were the classes, which were so difficult that I couldn’t keep up with what the lecturer was saying and ended up having to play Catan at the end of the day. This led me to have to pull many all-nighters, and I was incredibly sleep deprived. I think I barely scraped a pass in the first year, and I thought about dropping out so often. I feel as though this was a personal issue of mine, and I don’t think that I can say that it is the university’s fault; however, I did feel unsupported, and I did not know who to turn to. Things turned around in my second year when I found a solid group of friends and we would study together, but my first year was hell.

University of Southampton’s Aeronautics and Astronautics programme focuses on important physics and math concepts through theoretical, experimental and computational analysis. Throughout the duration of the course, core modules are taught in either in person lecture halls and classrooms or sometimes through online live lectures or pre-recorded lectures. Laboratory classes that focus on aerodynamics, propulsion, materials and structures (and more) concepts help aid the understanding of these fundamental concepts. Group design projects and reports provide the students a practical and collaborative nature to the course which would aid in future work prospects and endeavours. The university uses the BlackBoard site for providing lecture content, problem sheets and quizzes remotely to students. The professors are interactive and highly responsive to any queries that the student has. Personally, I’ve found all my professors to deliver content in an informative and cohesive way. The professors also release a mid-semester survey to collect information on how well the students find the course or if there are any queries. For my course in particular, the students get to automatically be a part of the University’s SpaceFlight Society and we also get constant updates and information on lectures related to the content delivered by external sources such as RAes and also on job opportunities. Overall, I find the course to be well put together and my experience with regards to it has been nothing but positive.

The University of Southampton is a world class university with world class academic facilities and resources. It has a well stocked modern library where students can have their private studies and research. I enjoyed interacting with the professors in this institution. They were friendly and incredibly great. Students learn to balance both the academic life and social life

The campus is quite spacious and relaxed with lots of areas to fit your needs. The facilities are modern and top quality. The prprofessors are wonderful people. Their teaching methods are great and fun. Precise and easy to understand.

The facilities are excellent. Tutors are mostly very helpful and available to talk to. beautiful campus with a lot of trees and flowers. The campus is being updated, the interiors are overall very good. I have managed to thrive here.