Solent University

Solent University offers a wide range of grants, bursaries and scholarships to different groups of students. Whether it's discounts on tuition fees or non-repayable cash awards - your wallet will be glad you took a look. Scholarships are based on merit, with awards for UK and international students. We also offer sports scholarships to athletes competing in a variety of sports at national and international level. Please visit the institution's website for further details about scholarships.

Everything we do at Solent is focused on you – your learning, your life, your career. We offer all of the skills, knowledge, and practical experience you’ll need – all the things employers are looking for. So, when you graduate, you’ll already feel like a professional.

• Solent’s top areas of research and expertise are the creative and cultural industries, maritime and the environment, and sport, health and wellbeing.
• Gain work experience with our in-house innovative student enterprises in retail, design and web, TV, music and radio production and event management.
• Our lively student community is home to over 100 different nationalities – giving our campus and our classrooms a diverse, multicultural feel.

• Solent Futures, our careers service, links with 3,000 employers offering a wide range of local part-time jobs plus other work and volunteering opportunities.
• Our Customer Service Excellence award-winning library is open 24 hours a day during peak periods.
• Our International Team supports you, throughout your student experience from arrival to graduation, with advice and help on visas, finance, life in the UK, etc.
• Access Solent is a disability service that aims to remove barriers to learning.
• Join a student society, join a sports team – or join a dozen – and discover something new to love.

Our city-centre campus gives you easy access to Southampton’s shops, culture, diversity, and sport. Southampton is a vibrant and modern city just over an hour away from London - and one of the south coast's biggest and brightest cities. Plus, our new on-campus sports complex is perfect for a quick gym session between lectures.

For more details about campuses, please visit the institution's website.

• Southampton is packed full of international dining options and offers a varied selection of cafés, restaurants, pubs and bars across the city. Southampton’s thriving local music scene includes small and indie venues like the legendary Joiners, as well as mega-club Oceana – and everything in-between.
• Premier League football, county or international cricket, plus water sports on the Solent, made world-famous for sailing during the 2012 Olympics.
• Southampton is also home to the South Coast’s biggest theatre – with all the big West End tours – plus city-centre theatres and art galleries. Also, the University has its own Dolby-surround sound 3D cinema showing some of the latest blockbuster films.
• Solent offers over 60 societies and sports clubs from music to fashion and sailing to hockey. Don’t fancy one of them? Create your own!
• Become part of student media – the eyes, ears and mouth of the student body, who help to bind the student community together.
• Solent offers social events and volunteering opportunities in the community and in the running of the Students' Union itself.

Student accommodation is more than just a roof over your head – the place you live can have a real impact on how well you settle into university life. Our dedicated accommodation service is here to make sure that every Solent student is happy and safe within their home.

• Accommodation is guaranteed to full-time first-year applicants of all nationalities who apply by the deadline.
• Over 1,200 self-catering single study bedrooms across 5 modern, purpose-built residences close to the university and city.
• Rent includes all utility costs, super-fast broadband in all bedrooms and communal areas, and personal possessions insurance.
• If you would rather live in a private house or flat in the city, the university has an accredited housing scheme.
• University accommodation is also available to second and third-year full-time undergraduates.
  
  For more information about accommodations, please visit the institution's website.