SOLENT STRATEGY 2035
Mission and vision
Southampton Solent University will be a more open, collaborative, and future-focused institution, driven by the passion to expand access to excellence.
Our mission
Our mission is to become the UK’s leading practice-led university – an open and collaborative institution, rooted in our region and connected to the world – transforming the lives and opportunities of our students, partners, and communities.
Our vision
By 2035, Southampton Solent University will be a more open, collaborative, and future-focused institution, driven by the passion to expand access to excellence.
Building on our founding principles as a practice-led university, we will transform Southampton Solent as a multiversity, opening our campuses to students at all stages of their lives, offering a flexible and adaptable approach to excellent education, and fostering diversity, social mobility, and lifelong learning.
We will stimulate innovation through our impact-led research, reframing our position as a diffusion engine to drive the best of innovation and development into society through a new, more open approach to knowledge exchange. Collaborating and co-creating with businesses and wider society we will proactively solve problems, deliver future solutions, and enhance prosperity.
To refocus our global connectivity, we will open Southampton Solent to the world, ensuring our students have a global perspective in the classroom and beyond, growing the reach of our partnerships, and increasing our impact, and delivering the finest global knowledge to enrich our region, and physical and digital campuses.
Bringing these three directions together with our existing strengths, will enable our students, partners, and our city and region to thrive in a rapidly changing and more unstable world.
