University of Portsmouth of Portsmouth won a £272,000 award from the Education and Training Foundation to research how best to deliver study programmes in the UK. In 2016, Dr Victoria Wang and Professor Mark Button, of the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, were awarded £299,355 by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to investigate unintended consequences of data release, including those associated with issues of trust, identity, privacy and security. The project is in partnership with Swansea University's Department of Computer Science, the DVLA and other government agencies. The University of Portsmouth is one of only four universities in the south east
University of Portsmouth to achieve the highest Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). The University was ranked 25th by The Guardian University Guide 2019, 51st by The Complete University Guide 2019 and 53rd by The Sunday Times University Guide 2018. Internationally, the University was ranked 98th in Times Higher Education's ‘100 under 50’ rankings of international modern universities 2017. Portsmouth was rated in the top 401 - 500 universities in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2017. The University of Portsmouth Students’ Union (UPSU) is a registered charity that represents and supports all UoP students, who automatically