University of Portsmouth
At a glance
Source: Discover Uni, median across coursesStudent satisfaction85%National Student Survey
In work or study90%15 months after graduating
Entrants’ UCAS points48–128+Middle entrant, by course
Continuation89%Students continuing into year 2
University of Portsmouth offers 211 undergraduate courses listed in the Discover Uni dataset, based in the South East. Across its courses, the median student satisfaction score is 85%. A median of 90% of graduates were in work or further study 15 months after finishing. Students typically arrived with between 48 and 128+ UCAS tariff points, depending on the course. 170 courses offer a placement year and 203 offer a year abroad.
Courses at University of Portsmouth
Filter these coursesAdult nursing1 course
Anatomy, physiology and pathology1 course
Architecture1 course
Biology1 course
Biomedical sciences2 courses
Building4 courses
Business and management1 course
Business computing1 course
Business studies8 courses
- BA (Hons) Business and Management3 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Business and Management with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Entrepreneurship and Business3 years · Full-time81% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Entrepreneurship and Business with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Business3 years · Full-time80% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Business4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Business and Languages3 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Marketing and Management3 years · Full-time78% satisfied
Chemical, process and energy engineering1 course
Childhood and youth studies4 courses
Cinematics and photography5 courses
Civil engineering2 courses
Combined, general or negotiated studies1 course
Computer games and animation10 courses
- BSc (Hons) Computer Animation and Visual Effects3 years · Full-time88% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computer Animation and Visual Effects4 years · Full-time84% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Computer Games Art3 years · Full-time80% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Computer Games Design3 years · Full-time88% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computer Games ProductionFull-time79% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computer Games Production3 years · Full-time88% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computer Games Production4 years · Full-time84% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computer Games Technology3 years · Full-time77% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computer Games Technology4 years · Full-time84% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Post-Production for Film and Television3 years · Full-time86% satisfied
Computer science10 courses
- BSc (Hons) Computer Networks And Security3 years · Full-time80% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computer Science3 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- MEng Computer Science4 years · Full-time77% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)3 years · Full-time80% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computer Science (Cyber Security)3 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computer Science (London Campus)3 years · Full-time80% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Computing3 years · Full-time80% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Data Science and Artificial Intelligence4 years · Full-time80% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Digital Marketing3 years · Full-time76% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Digital Marketing4 years · Full-time78% satisfied
Counselling, psychotherapy and occupational therapy2 courses
Creative writing4 courses
Dental nursing2 courses
Dentistry1 course
Design studies8 courses
- BA (Hons) Fashion Design3 years · Full-time88% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Fashion Design4 years · Full-time88% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Graphic Design3 years · Full-time94% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Graphic Design4 years · Full-time88% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Illustration3 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Illustration4 years · Full-time88% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design4 years · Full-time88% satisfied
Development studies2 courses
Developmental psychology2 courses
Drama1 course
Earth sciences1 course
Ecology and environmental biology1 course
Economics6 courses
- BScEcon (Hons) Economics3 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Economics and Management3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Economics and Management with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Economics, Finance and Banking4 years · Full-time87% satisfied
- BScEcon (Hons) Economics, Finance and Banking3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Development and Languages with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time88% satisfied
Education5 courses
Electrical and electronic engineering5 courses
- BEng (Hons) Electrical Power Engineering3 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BEng (Hons) Electronic Engineering3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- MEng Electronic Engineering4 years · Full-time80% satisfied
- BEng (Hons) Renewable Energy Engineering3 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BEng (Hons) Robotics and Artificial Intelligence3 years · Full-time83% satisfied
Engineering2 courses
English language3 courses
Environmental sciences3 courses
Finance3 courses
Forensic and archaeological sciences2 courses
Health sciences2 courses
History2 courses
Human resource management2 courses
Information technology2 courses
Journalism2 courses
Law6 courses
- LLB (Hons) Law3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- LLB (Hons) Law with Business3 years · Full-time84% satisfied
- LLB (Hons) Law with Business with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- LLB (Hons) Law with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- LLB (Hons) Law with Legal Practice3 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- LLB (Hons) Law with Legal Practice4 years · Full-time85% satisfied
Literature in English4 courses
Marketing4 courses
Mathematics4 courses
Mechanical engineering3 courses
Media studies5 courses
- BA (Hons) Film Studies3 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Global Communication And Media3 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Media and Communication with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Media Studies3 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Media Studies4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
Medicine by specialism1 course
Mental health nursing1 course
Molecular biology, biophysics and biochemistry1 course
Music4 courses
Others in computing1 course
Others in language and area studies2 courses
Others in psychology1 course
Others in technology4 courses
- BSc (Hons) Business and Supply Chain Management3 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Business and Supply Chain Management with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Creative Computing3 years · Full-time88% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Creative Computing3 years · Full-time88% satisfied
Pharmacology1 course
Pharmacy1 course
Physical geographical sciences1 course
Physics4 courses
Politics10 courses
- BA (Hons) History and Politics3 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BA (Hons) History and Politics4 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Relations3 years · Full-time84% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Relations and Languages4 years · Full-time78% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Relations and Languages4 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Relations and Politics3 years · Full-time80% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Relations and Politics with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time84% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Relations with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time84% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Politics3 years · Full-time84% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Politics with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time84% satisfied
Production and manufacturing engineering1 course
Psychology7 courses
- BSc (Hons) Criminology and Psychology3 years · Full-time84% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Criminology and Psychology4 years · Full-time84% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Psychology3 years · Full-time81% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Psychology (Dual Degree - Edith Cowan University)4 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Psychology with Forensic and Investigative Psychology4 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Sociology with Psychology3 years · Full-time90% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Sociology with Psychology4 years · Full-time84% satisfied
Social policy1 course
Social sciences1 course
Social work1 course
Sociology17 courses
- BA (Hons) Childhood and Youth Studies with Criminology3 years · Full-time82% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Criminology3 years · Full-time84% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Criminology4 years · Full-time84% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Criminology and Criminal Justice (Distance Learning)Full-time75% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Criminology and Cybercrime3 years · Full-time79% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Criminology and Cybercrime4 years · Full-time84% satisfied
- BA (Hons) International Development3 years · Full-time89% satisfied
- LLB (Hons) Law with Criminology3 years · Full-time84% satisfied
- LLB (Hons) Law with Criminology with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Policing and Investigation (Distance Learning)Full-time80% satisfied
- BA (Hons) Politics and Sociology3 years · Full-time84% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Professional Policing3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Risk and Security Management (Distance Learning)Full-time75% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Sociology3 years · Full-time91% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Sociology4 years · Full-time84% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Sociology with Criminology3 years · Full-time86% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Sociology with Criminology4 years · Full-time84% satisfied
Software engineering2 courses
Sport and exercise sciences4 courses
- BSc (Hons) Psychology of Sport and Performance4 years · Full-time83% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Sport Management3 years · Full-time85% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Sport Management with Foundation Year4 years · Full-time88% satisfied
- BSc (Hons) Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences (Dual Degree)3 years · Full-time94% satisfied
Teacher training1 course
Tourism, transport and travel1 course
Living and studying here
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Students’ unionClubs, societies and support
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Main location: MERCANTILE HOUSE, HAMPSHIRE TERRACE, PORTSMOUTH, PO1 2EG · View on map
Frequently asked questions
What UCAS points do you need for University of Portsmouth?
It depends on the course. Based on the most recent entrants, the middle student arrived with between 48 and 128+ points across University of Portsmouth’s courses. Check each course page for its figure, and the university’s own website for its current offer.
Are students at University of Portsmouth satisfied with their course?
The median National Student Survey positivity score across University of Portsmouth’s courses is 85%. Scores vary a lot by course, so compare the individual courses you are interested in.
Do University of Portsmouth graduates get jobs?
A median of 90% of graduates were in work or further study 15 months after graduating, with a median salary of £28,000. Figures come from the Graduate Outcomes survey.
How many courses does University of Portsmouth offer?
We list 211 undergraduate courses at University of Portsmouth, across 69 subjects.