Bachelor of Science in Pharmacology

at University of Southampton - Highfield Campus United Kingdom

Take your engineering passions to the skies as you learn to design the aircraft and spacecraft of the future. You’ll explore vital areas of electronics and take up the challenge of developing greener air travel. You'll also gain specialist knowledge of avionics, practical computing and programming. This course will prepare you for a career in the aerospace industry.

BEng Aerospace Electronic Engineering gives you a broad knowledge of electronics. You can then focus on new and future aerospace technologies, including:

• Autonomous, unmanned flying vehicles
• GPS to improve flight safety and efficiency

Our expert academics bring industry experience to the classroom. They have worked on projects with NASA and the European Space Agency.

As part of this course you can:

• Design and build your own electronic circuits, systems and computer software
• Use our research facilities, including a computer labs, high-voltage laboratory and £110m clean room
• Develop your enterprise skills with help from our startup supporter, Future Worlds
• study engineering management and law to develop your career skills

Our aerospace electronic engineering degree is accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology on behalf of the Engineering Council for the purposes of:

• Fully meeting the academic requirement for registration as an Incorporated Engineer
• Partly meeting the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered Engineer

Learn how a business operates and study key management concepts on our MSc International Management degree. You'll find out what makes an effective manager and apply your learning to hands-on practical exercises and simulations. This management master’s degree will give you the skills you need to work in organisations across the world.

Our MSc international business management course is open to graduates from a range of academic and professional backgrounds. This UK international management degree encourages you to explore different topics to help you discover what you want to specialise in.  

You'll learn:

• How organisations operate and are managed
• How to resolve issues through your understanding of management concepts   
• Analytical, communication and self-management skills  
• Industry speakers will provide regular insights into the latest practice and course lecturers will incorporate real-world case studies into their teaching.

The course modules cover:

• Management within a global context
• Strategic management
• Marketing
• Accounting and control
• Responsible leadership decision making
• Operations management

Our alumni actively share their career paths with new students. When you join this course, you become part of our successful international network of alumni, learning from one another.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to revolutionise work, leisure and travel in ways we can only imagine. It has the potential to solve global health, social and environmental challenges. On this computer science with artificial intelligence course, you’ll learn to design and build the AI programs and systems behind these exciting developments.

As a highly respected hub for AI research, you'll benefit from a range of specialist modules that few UK universities can match. You’ll also be taught by academics actively involved in the latest advances in AI.

Areas you’ll study include machine learning, computer vision, intelligent agents, game theory and robotics.

You’ll graduate with outstanding career prospects in one of today’s most exciting and rapidly evolving fields of computer science.

As part of your master's you will:

• Learn how to design, build and deliver software programs and systems
• Study AI principles and practice at an advanced level
• Be taught by academic staff at the forefront of research
• Do an individual special project in year 3
• Take part in a group design project in year 4, working with an academic or industry customer

This MEng Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence degree is accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology on behalf of the Engineering Council for the purposes of:

• Fully meeting the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered Engineer

Become a leader in public health management with this specialist master's degree. You’ll learn how to assess the need for, and management of, public health programmes. Gain key management skills such as leadership, risk analysis and cost-effectiveness as you work in multi-disciplinary teams on real-world tasks.

This MSc Public Health Management degree will give you the skills for a management career that makes a difference. Graduates of this master's have gone on to work for the government and public bodies both in the UK and abroad. These include Public Health England, local government and ministries of health.

An in-depth understanding of public health underpins this course. You’ll learn to develop and evaluate public health programmes and conduct epidemiological studies. The specialist management areas you’ll explore within a health context include:

• Systems thinking to tackle complex problems
• Making decisions to manage risk and uncertainty
• Cost-effectiveness of programmes

Through your dissertation, you can personalise this course to your interests. In previous years students have worked on projects related to health care systems, such as reducing the burden of treatment for people with long term conditions and multiple morbidity and social care needs. Public health is an interdisciplinary profession, and this is reflected in your learning. Your lecturers are academics who are actively involved in research or are working in the sector. They’re experts from across the University, in both Public Health, Health Economics and Management.

Learn how to design using simulation software on this MSc Computational Engineering Design course. Effective modelling is vital to the automotive, aerospace and bioengineering sectors.

Our master's degrees in advanced mechanical engineering science combine the traditional aspects of mechanical engineering with interdisciplinary subjects so you can specialise in a career you want. Our international centre for research and teaching is recognised across the world.

This UK master’s degree explores the latest techniques, methods and simulation software used in computational engineering and design. We'll teach you how design ideas are created, tested and how to work with industry.  

Computational modelling is important to industries such as:

• Automotive
• Aerospace
• Bioengineering

On this master of science in computational engineering, you’ll learn to use simulation software tools to see how designs will work in practice. We’ll teach you to use advanced numerical methods and to apply design search and optimisation principles to solve problems.

You’ll learn from academics at the forefront of their fields, they teach the latest in technology advancements. Studying at Southampton gives you access to a global network of companies, shared facilities and specialist expertise to enhance your learning.

Psychology is an important resource for educators and policy makers. This course is for those interested in how education evolves, how people learn and how they behave in educational settings. Like a single-honours psychology degree, this course will prepare you for a wide range of psychology careers, as well as education-related jobs and further study.

Our course focuses on the rigorous, scientific study of education alongside the core topics of a psychology degree. You’ll also examine how psychology research applies to education.

You’ll study topics such as:

• Curriculum design
• Behavioural neuroscience
• Developmental psychology
• Special educational needs

As part of your degree you can:

• Study UK and international systems, from primary to post-compulsory education
• Explore key topics like social justice, inclusion and digital literacy
• Use our custom observation rooms, eye-movement recording facilities and virtual reality labs
• Access our Institute for Equity and Effectiveness in Education (IE3), one of the country’s leading institutes for education research
• Study abroad at one of our exchange partner universities

This programme is accredited by the British Psychological Society. It can lead onto Chartered Membership.

Learn the theory and application of statistical methods on this MSc Applied Statistics degree at the University of Southampton. Gain in-depth knowledge and skills in analysing large-scale data to solve problems. You'll graduate ready for a career as a statistician in a wide range of sectors, from government to medicine.

On this UK statistics master’s course we’ll teach you how to collect and analyse quantitative social science data and apply it to real-world problems.  

Through your choice of modules you’ll be able to adapt the course to your personal interests or career plans.  

Typical subjects include:

• Survey methods and design
• Survey modelling (multilevel, longitudinal, linear)
• Analysing complex data sets

You’ll benefit from the research of our expert academics, whose findings feed directly into the course content. Our main areas of expertise at Southampton include:

• Sampling
• Small-area estimation
• Census and administrative data
• Analysis of ‘big data’

We’re known for the expertise and international scope of our research and for the application of cutting-edge quantitative and qualitative methods.

We host the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which provides training and capacity building as well as carrying out its own research programme.

Spend your third year in Spain, studying maths at one of our partner universities. This degree is a fantastic opportunity to immerse yourself in Spanish, while developing your mathematical problem-solving skills. You’ll study pure and applied mathematics, statistics and operational research. You’ll graduate with sought after skills in mathematics as well as experience of working and studying in another language.

This BSc Maths with Spanish degree covers the foundations of algebra, calculus and statistics. You’ll investigate the applications of mathematics in a variety of contexts and use mathematical and statistical models.

As part of this course you’ll:

• Be able to specialise in pure or applied mathematics, operational research or statistics
• Become proficient in Spanish, understanding subtleties and holding formal and informal conversations with ease
• Spend your third year at one of our Erasmus partner institutions in Madrid, Malaga, or Santiago de Compostela
• Use our student centre, a dedicated learning and social space for maths students
• Use mathematical and computational packages such as Python and the statistics package 'R'

You’ll be taught through a combination of lectures and workshops by leading researchers. Their fields of expertise include group theory, the mathematics of nature, and experimental design.

Explore your passion for chemistry and mathematics with our flexible, combined honours integrated master's degree. This challenging course gives you an in-depth understanding of chemistry and also integrates advanced mathematics throughout. You'll gain advanced analytical and statistical skills and have the opportunity to work on a significant independent research project. The skills you develop will help you pursue a rewarding scientific career.

This chemistry with maths degree is taught by academics at the forefront of chemistry research, giving you the opportunity to develop your knowledge of a variety of chemistry applications. These include computational chemistry, nuclear magnetic resonance and drug discovery.

The course's breadth gives you deep knowledge of the fundamentals of chemistry as well as excellent practical lab skills. Mathematics modules will enable you to shape your degree to specialise in the areas that most inspire you.

You’ll use state of the art equipment in our range of laboratories. These include the single crystal diffraction lab, the mass spectrometry lab and a dedicated X-ray crystallography teaching facility.

This degree is accredited by the Royal Society of Chemistry. When you graduate you'll be eligible for full membership status (MRSC).

Learn how economic decisions affect us as individuals and society as a whole. This Economics and Finance course combines studying economics with analysing financial markets and institutions. You'll gain the skills and knowledge to pursue a career in finance or economics.

Your A level results will determine which core or compulsory modules you'll need to take.

You'll learn from our expert teaching staff, whose research has influenced international policy.

In your first year you'll learn how to use Bloomberg trading terminals in our Financial Laboratory (FinLab), and have the chance to gain a Bloomberg Markets Concepts qualification.

You'll take core modules in:

• Microeconomics
• Macroeconomics
• Quantitative methods
• Finance
• Accounting

You can also take modules from the Economics department, Business School or from other departments across the University. You could choose modules in:

• Portfolio theory
• Principles of finance
• Empirical finance
• International trade

As part of this course you can also:

• Spend a semester abroad in your third year
• Spend a year in employment
• Gain vital work experience on our Student Innovation Projects

You'll graduate with the skills and knowledge to pursue a career in finance or economics. You could also go on to further study.