Marine Engineering

Program Feature

The university offers one-year Chinese language study for free to those who apply for degree program in SMU. Students should pay the first year tuition, and for the last year study will be free of charge.

Enrollment:

Shanghai Maritime University reserves the right to admit foreign students by written test or interview.

The enrollment result will be issued at the beginning of July. The offer package will be delivered after that.

Shanghai Maritime University (SMU) is a multi-disciplinary university that encompasses such areas as engineering, management, economics, law, liberal arts, and science, with special emphasis on shipping, logistics and ocean. Chinese maritime education originated at Shanghai and grew out of the Shipping Section of Shanghai Industrial College founded in 1909 (towards the end of the Qing Dynasty). SMU was established by the Ministry of Communications in 1959. According to the university layout adjustment in Shanghai, and for better service of construction of Shanghai International Shipping Center, Lingang new campus inaugurated in 2008. On October 2019, SMU celebrated its 110th anniversary.

At present the university runs 3 post-doctoral research stations, 18 doctoral programs, 64 master’s degree programs, 52 bachelor’s degree programs. SMU boasts 16 provincial and ministerial key research institutes and laboratories, 1 state-level key discipline, 5 state-level specialties with special features, 9 ministerial or municipal key disciplines, and 17 Shanghai municipal “educational heights”. Besides, Five disciplines, namely Engineering, Computer Science, General Social Sciences, Materials Science, and Environmental Science & Ecology of SMU has ranked top 1% in ESI ranking across the globe. SMU owns a 48-thousand-ton bulk vessel for teaching and internship, named Yuming ship.

In the MOE evaluation of undergraduate education in 2004, SMU was awarded an “A”(Excellent). Then in 2006 the SMU English-language specialty won another “A” in the MOE assessment. The university has won multiple awards for research including national awards for science and technology projects and awards for scientific and technological progress above the municipal and ministerial level in 2017.

SMU presently consists of Merchant Marine College, College of Transport and Communications, School of Economics Management, Logistics Engineering College (Sino-Dutch Mechatronics Engineering College), School of Law, College of Information Engineering, College of Foreign Languages, College of Ocean Science and Engineering, College of Arts and Sciences, Scientific Research Academy, etc. SMU has over 26,000 students, of whom over 16,000 are undergraduates and nearly 8,000 are postgraduate students. Of the nearly 1,200 full-time teachers, nearly 200 are professors. Over the past decades the university has cultivated specialists of various types at various levels for the country’s shipping industry. The graduated students are employed in shipping companies, port enterprises and government institutions. Deservedly, SMU has been honored as a “cradle of international shipping specialists”.

SMU has always attached much importance to exchange and cooperation with overseas academies, institutions and industry companies, and has established close ties with over 100 institutions in aspects of teacher exchange, joint school-running, scientific research cooperation, students exchange, etc, and close contacts with international noted shipping organization/institution, (e.g.) International Maritime Organization, The Baltic and International Maritime Council, Classification society in Norway. SMU has opened up “international class”, which attracts students of maritime institutions in USA, Korea, Poland, Russia, German, Ukraine, etc. Approved by the Education Ministry of China in 2011, the Bachelor of Science program in Logistics Management, offered by Shanghai Maritime University in collaboration with Regional Maritime University is open to applicants from Central and West Africa, which is the pioneering overseas program that can be awarded Chinese bachelor's degree among Shanghai universities. Since 2012, SMU is approved to accept the Chinese Government Scholarship students, which will be more conducive to promoting the process of internationalization of SMU. (Last updated March, 2025)

International Students Dormitory (Building No. 62)

The International Students Dormitory is exclusively for international students at Shanghai Maritime University. Each room is equipped with a bathroom, an air-conditioner, Internet access, a refrigerator and a closet. If you need a room in an international student dormitory, you should reserve it when applying for your study program. If you are a degree program student, you should save your accommodation fee on your bank card at the start of each semester, and the school will make a one-time deduction on a designated date.

Accommodation fees (Lingang Campus)

Type Room rate (RMB) Beds available

Suite (single rooms) 40 / day / bed 6000 / semester

Single suite(bunk bed) 30 / day / bed 4500 / semester

Double suite(bunk bed) 20 / day / bed 3000 / semester

Energy

SMU provides you with some energy credits for free at the start of each semester. When they are used up, you will be asked to pay the extra. You can charge electricity with your student card at the multi-media charging machine in room B104 of your dorm. Fees for gas and water are payable at reception. If you need help with charging your card, please come to reception.

Water (3 yuan/ton): 5 tons per student per month for free

Electricity (0.636 yuan/kw): 70 kw per room per month for free

Gas (2.5 yuan/meter): 8 meters per student per month for free

3 Steps to Apply to a Chinese University

1. Graduate or above

2. Age 45 or below

3. Enough English language competency for academic learning (TOEFL ibt 90 or above, IELTS 6.0 or above)

4.Healthy foreigners

1. Photocopy of valid passport
    With photo, passport number &expiration date and name included.

2. Passport-sized photo
    A passport-sized photo taken recently of the applicant.

3. Master's degree diploma
    Graduation certificate should be in Chinese or English.
    If not, it should be translated into Chinese or English and be notarized.

4. Transcript of postgraduate school

5. Two recommendation letters
    From professor,associate professor or equivalents.

6. English proficiency test certificate
    For example, IELTS or TOEFL, only for applicant whose native language is not English.

7. Health certificate
    Required during application.Photocopy of notarized foreigner physical examination record (for durations of study over 6 months)