Welcome to the Warsash Maritime School.
Phases one, three and five of your officer cadet academic education and training programmes will be mostly based out of the main campus at East Park Terrace in Southampton. Once you’ve registered on the course you will have access to your timetable detailing exactly where to go.
East Park Terrace campus
Solent's East Park Terrace (EPT) campus is where you can take full advantage of all the facilities on offer: sports complex, Students' Union events, IT resources, and food outlets and cafés. The library also has extensive nautical reference material for your studies. You’ll be based at EPT for all your academic classes, and some of your short courses.
The East Park Terrace campus is also home to the maritime simulation centre, the UK’s largest ship and port simulation centre with eight full-mission bridges, a full-mission engine and high voltage simulator, four multi-purpose desk simulation classrooms, and two GMDSS radio communication suites. Later in your phase 3 and 5 you will be attending courses in the simulation centre as part of your cadetship.
Safety training centre at the Warsash campus
All your practical safety training courses are held at our waterside campus at Warsash, which is around 11 miles from Southampton. This includes all your mandatory basic and advanced STCW courses in firefighting, maritime safety, personal and offshore survival and medical certification. Transport to the Warsash campus will be arranged by the school to and from your accommodation in Southampton.
Engineering/ETO workshops at St Mary's campus
An engineer or ETO cadet will be attending the two-day workshops in our St Mary’s campus at Southampton City College which is just a 15-minute walk to the EPT campus. This will be until the new extensive engineering workshop and ETO laboratories within the Christopher Cockerell building on the EPT campus are completed in 2025.
Accommodation
Officer cadets are offered accommodation in the Chantry and Deanery halls of residence for phase 1 - these halls are a 15-minute walk to the EPT campus. The residences are reserved for Warsash cadets and offer single study-bedrooms with or without en-suite, and fully-equipped kitchen-diners. All student residences have WiFi. Cadets returning to phase 3 and 5 are offered accommodation under an arrangement with Every Student’s Lucia Foster Welch residence.
Officer cadet support
We offer support across all of the University’s services via student.hub@solent.ac.uk, but if you have any specific queries about your cadetship, you can contact the cadet liaison officer by emailing cadet.support@solent.ac.uk.
