University of Portsmouth
About
University of Portsmouth is a UK university founded in 1869, based in Portsmouth. The Teaching Excellence Framework awarded University of Portsmouth a Gold rating.
Academic staff have published 3,405 works cited 85,023 times, with an h-index of 114.
Courses at University of Portsmouth (434)
Accountancy and Financial Management (Top-Up)
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Accounting and Data Analytics
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Accounting and Finance
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Accounting with Finance
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A-Levels
BBB - BBC
UCAS Points
112 - 120 points
Accounting with Finance with Foundation Year
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UCAS Points
32 points
Accounting with International Finance (Top-Up)
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Who gets into University of Portsmouth
See full breakdown →Full-time undergraduates admitted in 2023-24, by neighbourhood deprivation. Source: Office for Students.
From the least deprived 20% of UK neighbourhoods
26.9%
From the most deprived 20%
11.5%
The richest-area share is 15.4 percentage points higher than the poorest-area share among 3,700 entrants in 2023-24.
Notable alumni of University of Portsmouth
See all 53 →53 notable graduates and former students with Wikipedia coverage, ranked by international reach. Source: Wikidata.
Timothy Peake
British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut
Grayson Perry
English artist, writer and broadcaster (born 1960)
Martin Whitmarsh
English businessman
Simon Armitage
British poet, playwright, and novelist (born 1963)
Mikhail Zygar
Russian journalist, director, former editor-in-chief of the TV Rain channel, author of several books
Darren Naish
British palaeontologist
Siti Aisyah Alias
Malaysian academic
Julian Pender Hume
British paleontologist
Leila Ghandi
Moroccan television personality and photographer
Shirley Conran
British writer (1932-2024)
Bikiya Graham-Douglas
Nigerian actress
John Akomfrah
Ghanaian-born British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator (born 1957)
Rankings
- Complete University Guide 2026
- #42
- The Guardian (UK) 2026
- #35
- QS World 2026
- =635
- Times Higher Ed (World) 2026
- 401–500
- ARWU (Shanghai) 2025
- #901
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Quick Facts
- Location
- Portsmouth
- Postcode
- PO1 2UP
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1869
- TEF Rating
- Gold