Subject area: Physics and Astronomy

We're ranked 4th in the UK in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019 by Subject for physical sciences (which includes physics and astronomy).

Final-year projects are frequently hosted at our world-class research facilities. These currently include the ARCHER super computing service; a state-of-the-art scanning confocal microscope in soft matter; and a high magnetic field laboratory that includes dilution capable of 15 mK temperatures, as well as flow and high-pressure chamber for planetary environmental simulation.

You will join a community of researchers and academics who work across major research facilities including the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, the UK Centre for Astrobiology, the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics and the new Higgs Centre for Innovation. Both Higgs centres have been named after our Emeritus Professor and Nobel Prize winner Peter Higgs.

You will be taught by academic staff with links to major research facilities across the world, including CERN, TRIUMF, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and a number of principal astronomy facilities.

All our single honours programmes are accredited by the Institute of Physics (IOP).

You will have the opportunity to use extensive teaching laboratory facilities which cover all disciplines of experimental physics.