Master of Science in Neuroscience

at University of Southampton - Highfield Campus United Kingdom

This business entrepreneurship degree will give you a business management education, with a focus on entrepreneurship and its role in the economy and society. Practical components provide the skills to plan, promote, finance and grow your business venture. You'll graduate with the ability to start your own business or bring entrepreneurial thinking to an established organisation.

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

With this course you can:

• Learn about digital business models, technological innovation or digital marketing
• Learn business fundamentals such as financial and management accounting
• Benefit from hands-on experience of preparing business plans and presenting pitches to industry experts
• Take a year on an industrial placement to improve your skills
• Choose optional modules that will help you to develop your business management skills in areas such as strategic marketing, project management, finance and accounting, or operational management
• Study interdisciplinary modules to learn practical skills such as programming and web design

Our expert research-led academics are well connected. Through them you'll gain insights from the best and most innovative London-based companies, as well as Southampton's entrepreneurial community.

All of our Business courses include the option to spend a year studying abroad, at one of our partners in Europe, North America, Australia or Asia. It is a unique opportunity to experience another culture, improve your language skills and enhance your CV.

You'll graduate with a business and entrepreneurship degree accredited by:

• CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants)
• AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business)

Graduates have started their own businesses, and worked for consultancies such as PwC and Deloitte.

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

Become a leader in sustainable chemical engineering with this full-time master’s degree in Advanced Chemical Engineering. You’ll gain real-world insights working on actual industrial issues and will be equipped with the specialist skills needed to design sustainable technologies and processes.

As a chemical engineering graduate, you'll have excellent job prospects in sectors such as energy, pharmaceuticals and biochemicals. The skills you’ll gain in state-of-the-art reactor design, advanced understanding of safety and risk management and computer systems to control processes are in demand from companies around the world.

This chemical engineering degree has a strong focus on sustainable chemical engineering. On completion, you’ll have the skills to help the world transition to a more sustainable future. Through your optional modules, you can personalise your learning to a particular theme. You could focus on:

• Wastewater
• Reactors
• Biochemical engineering
• Electrochemical engineering
• Sustainable energy systems

Employability is embedded throughout this degree. As part of a group design project you'll work with a team to time and budget to design, prototype, computer model and/or manufacture a product that meets an industrial brief. Your project will be showcased in our annual Engineering Design Show.

You'll also complete an independent research project. Conducting independent, original and critical research on a subject of your choosing. This research can be done on an industrial placement.

We’ve recently invested £12 million in our chemistry laboratories, which include specialist chemical engineering equipment. You’ll work in our purpose-built engineering design studios using industry-standard tools and facilities.

Develop your signal processing skills on this Systems, Control and Signal Processing MSc at the University of Southampton. You'll specialise in systems theory, image processing and machine learning. Develop in-depth knowledge and practical skills in algorithmic development and programming, and graduate ready for a career in industry or research. 

This UK MSc signal processing with systems control course is built around the latest research carried out by our electronics and computer science experts. Areas you’ll cover include: 

• Signal processing
• Robotics
• Systems and control theory
• Image processing
• Machine learning

The MSc control systems course with signal processing has a high mathematical content, and much of the material is computationally based. 

As a postgraduate student, you will work with internationally respected academics at the forefront of their disciplines, tackling some of today’s biggest challenges. 

Our excellent facilities, key partnerships with major industries and a world-leading research base will ensure that your time studying with us will be productive, challenging and enjoyable. 

This accredited 3-year business analytics degree will give you a solid education in business. You'll gain the specialist skills needed to help organisations understand their customers. You'll also learn how to use data to make effective business decisions.

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

You'll develop the mathematical skills needed to gain insights from a range of data sources, including the internet and social media.

With this BSc Business Analytics course you can:

• Gain experience of industry-standard analytics software, including the most commonly used SAS (Statistical Analysis System) package
• Explore possible career paths by studying interdisciplinary modules, including languages and web design
• Learn the fundamentals of programming
• Put your knowledge into practice by working on a project to address a real-world industry issue
• Benefit from the expertise of our research-focused academics, as well as input from industry

All of our Business courses include the option to spend a year studying abroad, at one of our partners in Europe, North America, Australia or Asia. It is a unique opportunity to experience another culture, improve your language skills and enhance your CV.

You'll graduate with a degree accredited by:

• CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants)
• AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business)

The course is very flexible because you can choose some of the modules you'll study. For example, you can deepen your accounting and finance knowledge or study relevant business and management topics.

You can take this course with a paid industrial placement year, and gain valuable experience: Business Analytics with Placement (BSc).

Become an expert in international relations and the challenges of globalisation on this MSc in international politics. You'll cover a range of topics on this UK course, including the analysis of global politics, governance and social change. Prepare for a career in politics, advocacy or the civil service, or pursue your research passions to PhD level.

On this master’s degree at the University of Southampton you’ll gain specialist understanding of current global and international politics.

You’ll learn how developments in this area have major consequences for how states:

• Interact with each other
• Maintain security  
• Avoid conflict
• Deal with issues such as migration and the emergence of new global powers

You’ll also gain knowledge and understanding of:

• The main approaches to the study of international politics
• The issues and events that challenge contemporary understanding of international political change
• Philosophical and methodological debates in the study of this subject

Through your dissertation you’ll learn research skills such  searching and referencing sources, and managing complex information. These and other key skills, like critical thinking and independent study, will be crucial to your future career.

Develop your critical skills on this Global Literary Industries Management MA at the University of Southampton. You’ll study Shakespeare, Austen and creative writing, and benefit from practical sessions and placement opportunities. Your learning will include exclusive access to curators, theatre directors, novelists and heritage venues. This master’s course will prepare you for a career in the literary or cultural industries.

This UK master’s course will provide you with the knowledge and practical skills for a career in literature and culture, in areas such as:

• Journalism
• Publishing
• Archiving
• Broadcasting
• Arts writing
• Heritage management

You’ll learn from academics with professional experience in these fields, and explore the latest literary and cultural developments. Areas you’ll explore include:

• New media
• Online and interactive publishing
• Gaming and narrative
• Adaptations and translation
• Literary tourism
• Heritage management

We combine practical and critical approaches on this course, meaning you’ll have the skills to work in these industries as well as the knowledge to understand their cultural significance.

You’ll be able to fit the course to your interests or career plans through your choice of optional modules, which cover everything from script-writing to literature and law.

You’ll spend a signficant part of the course working on a major independent research project, allowing you to create your own professional portfolio.

Learn how to identify and manage public health issues by gathering, analysing and interpreting data. This specialist MSc Public Health Intelligence degree focuses on both academic and real-world learning. You’ll work in multi-disciplinary teams to gain the experience you need to take up health intelligence jobs in information management, data management and public health research.

This master's in public health intelligence will give you the skills for a career that makes a difference. Graduates of this course have gone on to work for the government and public bodies in both the UK and abroad, including Public Health England, local government, ministries of health, and universities.

The specialist public health intelligence areas you can explore include:

• Using geographical information systems in health analysis and health management
• Health economics for public health
• Advanced statistics

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 Public Health Geography and Social Science.

Chemistry plays a key role in tackling some of the world’s biggest problems, from climate change to disease. It helps us understand our earth, oceans, outer space, and bodies. This chemistry degree gives practical training in all aspects of chemistry and its impact on modern society. You'll graduate well prepared for a rewarding career in this fascinating discipline.

This programme is taught by academics at the forefront of chemistry research, giving you the opportunity to develop your knowledge in a wide range of areas. These include computational chemistry, nuclear magnetic resonance and drug discovery.

You’ll use our outstanding 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.

You'll also gain transferable skills such as problem-solving and data analysis, helping you keep your career options as open as possible.

Our chemistry degrees are accredited by the Royal Society of Chemistry. When you graduate you'll be eligible for full membership status (MRSC).

Develop the theoretical knowledge and practical skills to design and engineer the next generation of connected devices and systems on this Internet of Things master’s course. You’ll learn about key hardware and software components, and the tools and methods to protect and optimise them. The course combines elements of computer science and electronics, and is ideal if you’ve graduated from either discipline.

On this Internet of Things MSc you’ll gain knowledge and practical skills in:

• The main elements of Internet of Things (iot) systems and how to design and build them
• Embedded programming and iot hardware components such as microprocessors, microsensors and energy harvesters
• How data moves between devices, apps and the cloud
• Iot system vulnerabilities and how to secure iot devices and their networks against malicious attack

You’ll also have the flexibility to explore specialist IoT topics through your choice of optional modules. Typical subjects include:

• Managing and analysing the data produced by iot systems
• The architecture of embedded processors, and how to design and build them
• The design and optimisation of wireless communications systems using machine learning techniques
• The applications of modern cryptography
• Signal processing and computer vision

You'll learn from researchers who are advancing IoT technologies for applications as varied as smart homes and cities, environmental monitoring, healthcare and disaster relief.

Our Electronics and Computer Science department is also home to the Centre for Internet of Things and Pervasive Systems research group. Much of the course content is informed by their work, so you’ll benefit from the latest knowledge in this field.