Odessa National Maritime University (ONMU)

Odessa National Maritime University (ONMU) an educational institution, which prepares graduates of all educational-qualifying levels (Bachelor, Specialist, Master) for full maintenance of personnel requirements for maritime and river branch.

Considering national and international significance of the results of University’s activity and its important contribution into development of education and science, the University was awarded with National status by the Decree of the President of Ukraine on February, 26 2002.

The ONMU is under direct subordination of the Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine and has got the IV-th (the highest) level of accreditation.

In 2003 the ONMU successfully completed the certification of international quality of management systems ISO 9001: 2000.

The University is a member of the European Association of Universities (EAU), South East European Transport Research Forum (SETREF), International Association of Maritime University (IAMU) and Magna Charta Universitatum. Since 2005 the ONMU is the Coordinator of the University Network of Central European Initiative (CEI) in Ukraine. Since 1995 ONMU participated in Trans-European Programs of Cooperation (TAC²S -TEMPUS).

The University is constantly developing new and maintaining already existing relationships with high educational establishments from Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Poland, China, Algeria, Estonia and many other countries.

The ONMU has 3 main campuses where there is an engine room, sports gym, arts hall, study rooms, IT centre, scientific library, research labs (including experimental pool and aerodynamic lab) and an up-to-date media centre with its own publishing house.

SHIPBUILDING FACULTY

Specialization:“Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Surveying and Management”, “Computer Sciences”.

Graduates of the Faculty work in shipyards and ship repair enterprises, in project instructive bureau, scientific researching societies, educational establishments, management departments of waterways, also in detachments of rescuing and ship lifting works all over the world. For the time of its existence, the Faculty prepared over 3 thousand qualified specialists.

The Faculty maintains close contacts with enterprises and organizations, that are not only the job placements for our graduates, but places of industrial practise for the students.

FACULTY OF WATER TRANSPORT AND SHELF CONSTRUCTIONS

Specialization: “Hydrotechnical Construction”

For the period of its existence 4, 6 thousand engineers has graduated from the Faculty. Now they hold the managing and leading engineering positions in administrative management of departments of water ways, in repair-rescuing subdivisions and departments of subwater technical works, in sea and river ports, in shipyards and shipbuilding plants, in project and scientific researching organizations, in educational establishments.

The Faculty of Water Transport and Shelf Constructions takes part in great number of scientific and technical projects jointly with organizations of the same profile of different countries

FACULTY OF PORT MECHANIZATION

Specialization: “Handling, Building, Road, Meliorating Machinery and Equipment”,

Engineers-mechanicals are prepared on this Faculty. The sphere of their activities is ensuring of high-productive work of reloading machines, their maintenance, invention of new machine constructions and transshipment process technologies, introduction of advanced progressive methods of machine work, rising of complex mechanization standards and performance of reloading process automation, organization of staff training and further improving of the level of staff's skill.

Specialists from the British Institute of Maritime Engineers, who provided the accreditation of Technical Faculties of the ONMU, estimated the work of the Faculty as of high quality. The Faculty was one of the first to be accredited and nowadays the Diploma of our University is valid in all marine states.

The laboratory base is equipped with unique training facilities and it allows to provide education of high quality for our future specialists.

SHIP ENGINEERING FACULTY

Specialization: “Ship Power Plants and Equipment”, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering”, “Sea and River Transport”

Nowadays the Ship Engineering Faculty is an industrial, educational and scientific complex that is able to solve different problems in professional training of ship and coastal engineering mechanicians of high qualification, whose professional skills satisfy the world’s requirements. During their training real ship equipment, local systems of management and machine hall are used.

The main part of educational process for specialists of Merchant Fleet is the practical studies, during which the students acquire practical skills in the machine rooms, shipyards and shipbuilding plants, scientific and research organizations, shipping companies.

FACULTY OF TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS

Specialization: “Organizations of Transportation and Transport Management”
“Transport Systems.

The Faculty of Transport Technologies and Systems prepares specialists of wide profile for working in the enterprises of transport complex. Knowledge, which students get while studying on the Faculty, allows them to solve organizational and technical problems for increasing the efficiency of functioning of State marine industry and related sectors of transport. It also forms methodical approach to the solution of the problems for improving the quality of transport service and raising the competitiveness of transport enterprises.

The graduates of the Faculty can work as stevedores and dispatchers, production engineers and managers of Cargo Transportation Complexes in sea ports, they can head the departments and services of shipping companies, agents, brokers, crewing and surveyor companies. They also work in R&D Institutes and in maritime engineering organizations, in maritime representative agencies in Ukraine and overseas, in central state body of The Ministry of Transport and Communications and in The Department of Sea and River Merchant Fleet.

FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT

Specialization: “Economics of Enterprise”, “Management”

Our graduates are trained for economic, organizational, management and researching activities in shipping companies, sea and river ports, shipyards, shipbuilding plants, in departments of sea and river ways, in department of tug-rescuing and specialized fleet, in broker’s, agents and transport expedition companies, in customs control organizations of different levels, in R&D institutes, in banks, in foreign representatives of shipping companies, in state external economic organizations, also in many other organizations of water transport and adjoining branches.

FACULTY OF LAW

Specialization: “Law”, “Jurisprudence”

Educational activity on the Faculty satisfy the requirements of modern national and international markets of transport services and of changes provided in Ukrainian and foreign law that in currently in force. Training and practice, diploma projecting are provided on the basis of modeling of real situations and problems that might be met in the future work in sphere of jurisprudence, organization and ensuring of transport process or regulation of international economic activities. For this purpose specialists of Law and executive bodies are enlisted for lecturing, practice and diploma projecting.

During their training students do the practice work in Court and executive bodies of Ukraine, in custom’s control bodies, in law departments of enterprises and organizations of maritime industry.

The faculty has opened a "Juridical Clinic", where the students of senior courses provide consultations for local citizens, if they have any questions connected with Law. All the consultations are conducted under the guidance of experienced instructors.

PREPARATORY COURSES FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

The syllabus for foreign citizens is adopted to prepare them for mastering technical science disciplines. The list of studied subjects include: Ukrainian and Russian Languages, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Drawing, Computer Sciences.

The graduates of the Preparatory courses receive a certificate which grants them the right to enter any Educational Institution in Ukraine.