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Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

Dear Prospective Students,

After your long and devoted efforts in your education life, you are now at the stage of making your choice of higher education that will give you a career. First of all, we congratulate you and wish you success and happiness in the department where you will continue your education.

Summary information about the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering profession and the department is provided below.

Our department trains the qualified manpower needed by the maritime sector in a wide range of fields including ships, marine structures and maritime technologies. Our department is a department that continues its dynamic development process by organizing its educational infrastructure within the framework of international education standards and accreditation criteria. Our department has a young, dynamic and qualified teaching staff. 

The number of graduates of YTU Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Department constitutes a significant portion of the number of engineers in ship, yacht construction and sub-industry in our country.

The main areas of work of our graduates are; shipyards, ship and yacht design offices, ship and yacht sub-industry organizations, ship operating (ship-owner) organizations, insurance organizations, classification (loyd, ship inspection and certification) organizations, offshore shift engineering on ships, maritime-related public institutions and defense industry. organizations.

By taking certain elective courses in the Department, our students, unlike our other Universities, also gain the right to work as Oceangoing Watch Engineers on ships. Graduates in this field start with an average salary of over $3000.

Our department students share the first three places every year in the "Ship and Yacht Design Competition" organized every year by the Turkish Ship and Yacht Exporters Association.

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