Ranked 9th in the world for Oceanography
Source: ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects: Oceanography, 2024
Full ranking profile 56 placements
Every placement the Index records for University of Southampton. The headline figure is the strongest of these.
| Ranking table | Publisher | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| ARWU GRAS 2024 Headline Oceanography | ShanghaiRanking Consultancy | =9 |
| QS by Subject 2025 Nursing | Quacquarelli Symonds | =13 |
| CUG 2027 | Complete University Guide | =15 |
| Guardian 2026 | Guardian News & Media | =20 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Economics | METU (URAP Lab) | =50 |
| Time 2026 | Time / Statista | =52 |
| Leiden 2025 social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =56 |
| RUR 2026 international diversity | RUR Rankings Agency | =70 |
| Leiden 2025 biomedical and health sciences (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =72 |
| Nature 2025 physical sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =75 |
| NTU 2025 Social Sciences | National Taiwan University | =82 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Nursing | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =82 |
| SCImago 2026 Business, Management and Accounting | SCImago Research Group | =84 |
| QS 2026 | Quacquarelli Symonds | =87 |
| SCImago 2025 Economics, Econometrics and Finance | SCImago Research Group | =87 |
| RUR 2026 research | RUR Rankings Agency | =103 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Studies in Human Society | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =110 |
| NTU 2025 Natural Sciences | National Taiwan University | =111 |
| SCImago 2026 Arts and Humanities | SCImago Research Group | =111 |
| RUR 2026 | RUR Rankings Agency | =112 |
| ARTU 2025 | UNSW Sydney | =117 |
| Nature 2025 Earth & environmental sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =122 |
| NTU 2025 Clinical Medicine | National Taiwan University | =124 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =127 |
| THE 2026 | Times Higher Education | =129 |
| Leiden 2025 scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =134 |
| Leiden 2025 life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =137 |
| NTU 2025 | National Taiwan University | =139 |
| Webomet 2025.2 (July 2025) | Cybermetrics Lab, CSIC | =142 |
| SCImago 2025 Social Sciences | SCImago Research Group | =142 |
| SCImago 2025 Psychology | SCImago Research Group | =149 |
| THE-Rep 2025 reputation | Times Higher Education | =151 |
| SCImago 2025 Engineering | SCImago Research Group | =155 |
| MosIUR 2025 | Association of Rating Makers (MosIUR) | =160 |
| URAP 2025-2026 | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =169 |
| NTU 2025 Agriculture | National Taiwan University | =173 |
| SCImago 2026 Physics and Astronomy | SCImago Research Group | =173 |
| SCImago 2025 Mathematics | SCImago Research Group | =184 |
| SCImago 2025 Earth and Planetary Sciences | SCImago Research Group | =190 |
| RUR 2026 teaching | RUR Rankings Agency | =199 |
| SCImago 2025 Computer Science | SCImago Research Group | =202 |
| NTU 2025 Life Sciences | National Taiwan University | =210 |
| SCImago 2026 | SCImago Research Group | =212 |
| Leiden 2025 mathematics and computer science (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =220 |
| SCImago 2025 Medicine | SCImago Research Group | =251 |
| Leiden 2025 | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =267 |
| Nature 2025 biological sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =281 |
| SCImago 2026 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | SCImago Research Group | =289 |
| NTU 2025 Engineering | National Taiwan University | =297 |
| Nature 2025 | Nature / Springer Nature | =299 |
| RUR 2026 financial sustainability | RUR Rankings Agency | =344 |
| Leiden 2025 physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =355 |
| Nature 2025 health sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =391 |
| SCImago 2025 Agricultural and Biological Sciences | SCImago Research Group | =394 |
| SCImago 2026 Environmental Science | SCImago Research Group | =394 |
| SCImago 2025 Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics | SCImago Research Group | =427 |
Banded results are recorded at the lower bound of the band. For how the headline figure is selected, see the methodology.