Southampton Solent University is a university of over 20,000 students based in Southampton,United Kingdom.
Its main campus is located on East Park Terrace near the city centre.
Solent University students are represented by Solent Students' Union, which is based on the East Park Terrace campus.
The university's origins can be traced back to a private School of Art founded in 1856, which eventually became the Southampton College of Art. Mergers with the Southampton College of Technology, and later the College of Nautical Studies at Warsash, led to the establishment of theSouthampton Institute of Higher Education in 1984.
Southampton Institute became a university on 12 July 2005, adopting its current name on 15 August 2005. Prior to 2005, students at Southampton Institute received degrees awarded by Nottingham Trent University.
