MSc
International Maritime Business
- Postgraduate
- Maritime
Maritime
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Launch your career in maritime.
The maritime industry is the backbone of international commerce, with shipping responsible for approximately 90% of all global trade. Whether you’re interested in a role at sea or more focused on shoreside opportunities, there’s scope for a huge range of rewarding roles and careers across maritime business, shipping, education and naval architecture.
Hugely respected in the industry, our programmes and courses at Solent cover subjects as diverse as marine underwriting and maritime law; shipping and port management; deck (navigation), engineering and electro-technical officer cadetship programmes; maritime education and training; and yacht design.
With over 70 years serving the maritime industry, our Warsash Maritime School is known the world over and enjoys the active support and engagement of alumni from and working in more than 70 nations.
Key selling points
- Study in the heart of Southampton - the UK’s largest maritime and shipping cluster and one of the most significant in Europe.
- Student learning, progression and achievement are enabled by practice-led teaching and personal feedback. We’re proud of our triple gold ratings in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023, recognising student experience and outcomes that are typically outstanding.
- Business engagement and cutting-edge research projects ensure students develop valuable, industry-relevant skills that are highly desirable to employers. Whether you aspire to work at sea or on shore, we’ll help you hone the skills to succeed now, and in the future.
- Our maritime training facilities are among the world's best including the UK’s largest ship and port simulation centre, well-equipped engineering workshops and laboratories, a dedicated fire training school, and the nation’s only manned model ship handling centre.
- Working in partnership allows us to offer more routes into maritime than ever before, from UK-based pre-cadetship programmes to international academic programmes delivered together with Metropolitan College’s Maritime Academy and School of Maritime Studies in Greece.
- Successful Warsash and Solent alumni excel in demanding but rewarding roles throughout the global maritime industry, from influential appointments in shore-side management, yacht design and education, to senior positions at sea.
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MSc
International Shipping and Logistics
- Postgraduate
- Maritime
BEng (Hons)
Marine Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Undergraduate
- Maritime
- Engineering
HND
Marine Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Undergraduate
- Maritime
- Engineering
FdEng
Marine Engineering
- Undergraduate
- Maritime
- Engineering
HND
Marine Engineering
- Undergraduate
- Maritime
- Engineering
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Facilities
We’ve invested more than £43 million in maritime training facilities and an additional £5 million through the South Coast Institute of Technology (IoT) to ensure students have access to the very best resources.
Facilities include the UK’s largest ship and port simulation centre, a dedicated fire school, and the nation’s only ship handling centre at Timsbury Lake.
The University also boasts a composite materials lab; mechanical, electronic engineering and yacht design workshops; a 60-metre towing tank; and a four-metre static stability tank—tools trusted by industry leaders and students alike.
View facilityBridge simulation
Bridge simulation
The bridge simulators and ECDIS suites are used for training deck officers in the use of radar, ECDIS, automatic radar plotting aids and other electronic aids to maintain safety of navigation.
View facilityEngine room simulation
Engine room simulation
The engine room simulator is set up to replicate a real ship's engine room using touchscreen technology and low voltage switchboard with real 440V breakers.
View facilityFire school
Fire school
Our purpose built fire school provides a realistic but safe environment in which seafarers can learn the vital techniques of fighting fires at sea.
View facilityHelicopter underwater escape trainer
Helicopter underwater escape trainer
A facility to provide essential training for those travelling to and from offshore installations by helicopter.
View facilityLibrary
Library
The Library building is open for Solent students and staff to access computers and study spaces, and for browsing the shelves and borrowing items.
View facilityLiquid cargo operations simulator
Liquid cargo operations simulator
Real time simulation of the process control system used in the storage and transfer of hazardous bulk liquid cargoes
View facilityMarine engineering workshops
Marine engineering workshops
Purpose-built and fully-equipped for teaching the use of machine tools, welding, and electrical maintenance for marine engineers.
View facilityMedical training centre
Medical training centre
The medical centre uses the same type of equipment as found on board ship for mandatory medical training for ships' officers.
View facilityPier head and survival craft
Pier head and survival craft
The pier head is used for maritime safety training for seafarers and safety training for those working on offshore installations.
View facilityRadio communications centre
Radio communications centre
The centre provides mandatory radio operations training for deck officers on large ships and on superyachts.
View facilitySeamanship centre
Seamanship centre
A fully-equipped facility allowing deck officers to undertake mandatory efficient deck hand training.
View facilityShip handling centre
Ship handling centre
Timsbury Lake is the home of our scaled model ship handling centre which provides specialist training for pilots, masters and senior ship's officers.
View facilityThe Spark
The Spark
Solent's £33m Spark building combines interactive teaching spaces with lecture theatres and an atrium with social spaces. Central to The Spark building is the futuristic Pod, which has a full-size lecture theatre and open-topped breakout space.
Come to an open day
Our open days are the very best way to see what Solent can offer – a perfect opportunity to talk to our lecturers and meet current students, discover our facilities and explore our campus.
Maritime news and events
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EngineeringTriFoiler Demonstrator Proves Cost Reduction Potential of Electric Fast Ferries
Electric trimaran vessel successfully concludes initial sea trials on Southampton water.
12 June 2025 - news
MaritimeNew student-led society empowers women at leading maritime school
Warsash Women's Group is providing a peer-to-peer support network for officer cadets at Solent.
12 May 2025 - news
MaritimeUniversity helps power maiden voyage of wind-assisted tanker with world-first training
Southampton Solent has partnered with Union Maritime Limited to help make green travel easier
15 April 2025 - news
MaritimePioneering research to tackle work-related ill-health in maritime sector
Researchers are collaborating with industry partners to address work-related ill-health among maritime workers.
31 March 2025
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