Undergraduate Studies

A range of disciplines relate to the study of oceanography. The National Oceanography Centre’s hosting partners – the Universities of Southampton and Liverpool – make excellent undergraduate opportunities available through the many courses that they offer.

  • The University of Southampton

    The University of Southampton has a global reputation for academic excellence. Ocean and Earth Science is positioned 28th in the QS World University rankings and the University is a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities. Southampton’s Ocean and Earth Science degree programmes are taught at the unique Waterfront Campus, which is based at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS). The university has a well-established reputation for our outstanding research led-teaching, and offers professionally accredited degree courses in oceanography, marine biology, geology and geophysics.

    Find out more about studying at The University of Southampton

  • The University of Liverpool

    The University of Liverpool is a Russell Group Institution – the original redbrick university – with a strong research focus, situated in one of the most creative and inspiring cities in the UK. Liverpool was the first UK university to have a dedicated ocean sciences department, beginning with the Liverpool University Tidal Institute in 1919. The Joseph Proudman Building, home to National Oceanography Centre Liverpool and the British Oceanographic Data Centre, is adjacent to the School of Environmental Sciences on the University of Liverpool campus.

    Find out more about studying at The University of Liverpool

Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton

The University of Southampton's unique waterfront campus, based here at the National Oceanography Centre, has allowed them to recruit top-level researchers and educators from around the world who work within the areas of geochemistry, geology and geophysics, marine biogeochemistry, marine biology and ecology, palaeoceanography and palaeoclimate and physical oceanography.

Through degree programmes in oceanography, marine biology, geology and geophysics, our students have access to research vessels, cutting-edge technology and facilities as well as opportunities for fieldwork and scientific cruises not available in standard university environments.

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