University of Southampton

SOUTHAMPTON MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIP

These Scholarships are for Graduate Study in any subject at either Masters or Doctoral level at the University of Southampton and will be for two years (with a possibility of a third year for doctoral studies). If awarded a Southampton Marshall Scholarship candidates would be expected to study at Surrey.

The University of Southampton began as the Hartley Institute in 1852 and gained its Royal Charter in 1952. It is a member of the Russell Group of Universities. The University of Southampton now has a total student population of 20,000 (full- and part-time), of whom 3000 come from outside the UK. It is a research-led university with many international partnerships and collaborations and is a founding member of the Worldwide Universities Network which has partners in the USA, Canada, UK, continental Europe, China and Australia (see www.wun.ac.uk).

The quality of research at the University of Southampton was recognised by the award of 24 5* and 5 ratings in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise and the teaching quality by the achievement of the highest possible outcome in the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) Institutional Audit in 2003. Our enterprise activities are equally strong with 16 spin out companies formed since 2000, 2 of which floated on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange in 2004. Twenty-five student and arts-based businesses have been helped to start-up.

Academically, the University of Southampton is a broad based university with three large faculties - Law, Arts & Social Sciences; Medicine, Health & Life Sciences; and Engineering, Science and Mathematics. There are exciting research, teaching and enterprise activities across all faculties with many interdisciplinary projects and collaborations in which individuals are encouraged to be innovative and entrepreneurial.

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For the University of Southampton website please visit: www.soton.ac.uk. Southampton is on the south coast of England with a warm climate, many parkland spaces in the city with a beautiful hinterland including the New Forest (established in 1066 by King William) national park.