South East England

Find a University in South East England Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College University College Chichester Cranfield University Canterbury Christ Church University University of Kent Oxford University Oxford Brookes University Reading University Thames Valley University The Open University The University of Portsmouth University of Brighton Southampton Solent University University of Southampton University of Sussex University of Buckingham University of Hertfordshire University of Luton University of Surrey Surrey Institute of Art and Design Farnham The University of Winchester

Population: 8,000,550 (2001)

The South East region has two cities with populations of around 250,000 - Medway and Brighton and Hove- and five cities with populations of greater than 100,000. The total population of the South East is just over eight million people.

Even with this significant population, 80% of the region is classified as rural according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

There are 20 Higher Education Institutes and other Universities with a campus in the region together with 71 Further Education Colleges. Over a quarter of all expenditure on research and development performed in UK businesses took place in the South East in 2001.