Odesa National Maritime University (ONMU) is a higher education institution of the IV level of accreditation in Odesa. The university was founded in June 1930 as the Odesa Institute of Water Transport Engineers (OIIVT). In 1945, it was renamed the Odesa Institute of Maritime Fleet Engineers (OIIMF). By the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated August 29, 1994, the institute was renamed Odesa State Maritime University (ODMU). By the decree of the President of Ukraine dated February 26, 2002, the Odesa National Maritime University was granted national status (ONMU). In 2003, Odesa National Maritime University successfully passed certification according to the international standard ISO 9001:2000 for quality management systems.
Odesa National Maritime University is located in 3 educational buildings, which house lecture halls, sports, and assembly halls, workshops, a library (with a total collection of over 800,000 copies), research laboratories, including unique ones (research pool, aerodynamics laboratory), and a modern publishing center with a printing house. ONMU has a yacht club, that hosts 13 cruising yachts. The total area of educational and laboratory buildings is 53,900 square meters. The Odesa National Maritime University has a modern information and computing center, which includes 250 personal computers, with 300 personal computers used in departments and divisions. Most of the computers are connected to a university-wide local optical fiber network of 500 personal computers, providing Internet access. The Odesa National Maritime University consists of 10 educational faculties that train specialists for the coastal infrastructure of maritime and river transport of Ukraine and foreign countries. Students can get high-quality higher education in 12 educational specialties.
Faculties and Institutes
- Faculty for International Students
- Faculty of Shipbuilding, Information Technology, and Systems Engineering
- Educational and Scientific Marine Engineering and Technical Institute
- Maritime Institute of Humanities
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Transport Technologies and Systems
- Faculty of Economics and Management
- Educational and Scientific Institute of Marine Business
Specialties
- Ships and Ocean Technology
- Information Control Systems and Technologies
- Ship Power Plants and Equipment
- Operation of Ship Power Plants
- Lifting and Transport
- Construction
- Road, Reclamation Machinery and Equipment
- Hydraulic Engineering
- Transport Systems
- Organization of Transportation and Transport Management
- Project Management
- Enterprise Economics
- Organizational Management
- Jurisprudence