As of May 20 18, the school covers an area of1360,000 square meters, with a construction area of 900,000 square meters. It has a well-equipped and fully functional teaching and experimental building for navigation majors, a navigation training and research center, an aquatic survival training hall, a teaching harbor, a library, a swimming pool and a planetarium.
There are more than 100 teaching and research laboratories such as navigation simulation laboratory and marine engine simulation laboratory, and there are two ocean-going teaching and practice ships. More than 20,000 undergraduates and graduate students. Over the past 60 years, the school has trained more than 10 million senior professional and technical personnel for the country, most of whom have become the backbone of China's shipping industry.
The predecessor of extended materials can be traced back to 1909, the shipping department of Shanghai Higher Institute of Technology (Nanyang College) of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications in the late Qing Dynasty. 19 1 1 year, based on the Department of Shipping Management, Shanghai Advanced Merchant Shipping School of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications was established. 19 12, renamed Wusong Merchant Shipping School.
1929 officially resumed classes after suspension, and was named Wusong Merchant Marine College of the Ministry of Communications. From 65438 to 0950, the Ministry of Communications of the Central People's Government decided to formally merge Wusong Merchant Marine College of the Ministry of Communications with the Department of Navigation Management of Jiaotong University to form Shanghai Maritime College. Before liberation, China's higher maritime education suffered hardships and was interrupted several times. After liberation, higher maritime education developed rapidly.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Dalian Maritime University