Science and Engineering South

Science and Engineering South (SES, previously SES-5) is a consortium of seven public research-intensive universities in the Southeast of England, who pool their resources and facilities to further research in the fields of science and engineering.

Consortium Its members accounted for a third of all EPSRC spending in 2013, when the consortium was formed. King's College London joined the consortium in 2016, becoming the sixth member institution. By March 2017, Queen Mary University of London had joined the consortium. The University of Cambridge, one of the founding institutions, rejoined in 2019 after leaving in 2017.

SES enables a network of high-performance computers available for research and scientific calculations across all its member universities, such as the 12,000 core IRIDIS Intel Westmere supercomputer cluster.

Universities University Undergraduate students () Postgraduate students ()Total students () Total academic staff () Total income(2024/25, £ millions)Research income(2024/25, £ millions)East of EnglandUniversity of Cambridge 2,457593Greater LondonImperial College London 1,474446King's College London 1,377261Queen Mary University of London 730161University College London 2,163557South East EnglandUniversity of Oxford 2,829801University of Southampton 738141

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