Other name | UoP |
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Former names | See History |
Motto | Latin: Lucem Sequamur[1] |
Motto in English | Let us follow the Light |
Type | Public |
Established | c. 1870 (as Portsmouth and Gosport School of Science and Art) |
Budget | £290.5 million (2021/22)[2] |
Chancellor | Karen Blackett[3] |
Vice-Chancellor | Graham Galbraith[4] |
Total staff | 3,500[5] |
Students | 29,000 (2021/2022)[6] |
Undergraduates | 22,170 (2020/21) |
Postgraduates | 6,110 (2020/21) |
Location | , 50°47′43″N 01°05′36″W / 50.79528°N 1.09333°W |
Campus | College town with multiple sites including: University Quarter Northern Quarter Langstone Campus London Campus |
Colours | Purple Black White |
Affiliations | University Alliance Doctoral Training Alliance The Channel Islands Universities Consortium Universities UK |
Website | port |
Location in Hampshire |
The University of Portsmouth (UoP) is a public university in Portsmouth, England.[7] Comprising five faculties, the university offers a wide range of academic disciplines.[8] With around 28,280 students enrolled in undergraduate and postgraduate programs, the university in 2022 was the 25th-largest higher education institution by student enrolments in the United Kingdom.[9] The university employed approximately 3,500 staff in 2020.[10]
Portsmouth was rated #651 in the world by QS World University Rankings in 2024, in the top 501–600 universities in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022, #901-1,000 in the world by Shanghai Ranking, and #908 in the world by CWUR rankings.In the 2023 edition of the Good University Guide – compiled by The Times and The Sunday Times – the university ranked 62nd out of the 132 universities in the United Kingdom.[11] It is one of five universities in the South East of England to have been awarded the highest rating of Gold in the 2023 Teaching Excellence Framework.[12] In the Times Higher Education REF ranking, the university was ranked third in research power for modern post-1992 universities.[13]
In the 2021 edition of the Research Excellence Framework, 77 per cent of research submitted by the university was ranked as world-leading or internationally excellent, with impacts across society, health, culture and the environment.[14][13]