学校概况
　　大连海事大学是中国著名的高等航海学府，是交通部所属的惟一一所全国重点大学，是被国际海事组织认定的世界上少数几所“享有国际盛誉”的海事院校之一。
　　大连海事大学历史悠久，其前身可追溯到1909年晚清邮传部上海高等实业学堂（南洋公学）船政科。解放前，中国高等航海教育历尽艰辛，几度中断。解放以后，高等航海教育才得以迅速发展。1953年，由上海航务学院、东北航海学院、福建航海专科学校合并成立大连海运学院，时为我国惟一的高等航海学府。1960年，大连海运学院被确定为全国重点大学；1983年，联合国开发计划署（UNDP）和国际海事组织（IMO）在学校设立了亚太地区国际海事培训中心；1985年，设立世界海事大学大连分校；1994年，经国家教委批准，学校更名为大连海事大学，江泽民同志亲笔为学校题写了校名；1997年，被国家批准进行“211工程”重点建设；1998年，通过国家港务监督局和挪威船级社（DNV）的质量体系认证；2001年，顺利通过了“211工程”“九五”期间建设项目的国家验收；2002年，“211工程”“十五”期间建设项目可行性研究报告通过交通部专家组论证。目前，学校在办学规模、办学层次等方面已居于世界同类院校的前列。
　　大连海事大学位于中国北方海滨名城大连市的西南部。学校占地面积90万平方米，校舍建筑面积44万平方米。学校拥有设施先进、功能齐全的计算中心、电化教学中心、航海训练与研究中心、图书馆、游泳馆、天像馆等，拥有航海模拟实验室、轮机模拟实验室等40余个教学科研实验室，拥有2艘万吨级远洋教学实习船。
　　大连海事大学设有航海学院、轮机工程学院、交通运输管理学院、信息工程学院、计算机科学与技术学院、自动化与电气工程学院、法学院、商学院、人文社会科学学院、环境科学与工程学院、成人教育学院、国际合作学院和外语系、数理系、体育工作部、研究生部等教学单位。现有25个本科专业、24个硕士点、9个工程硕士点、9个二级学科博士点和1个一级学科博士点。交通运输工程一级学科设有博士后流动站。交通信息工程及控制和轮机工程被批准为国家重点学科。学校同时招收攻读学士、硕士、博士学位的外国留学生。现有本科生和研究生13000余人。并校50年来，学校为国家培养了各类高级专业技术人才4万余名，其中大多数已成为我国航运事业的骨干力量。另外，学校还为30多个国家和地区培养、培训留学生及各类高级专业技术人才2000余名。
　　大连海事大学拥有一支整体素质好、层次结构合理、相对稳定的师资队伍，现有教授150余人，还拥有一大批优秀中青年教师。在海上交通工程、航海信息工程、船舶智能化、船舶动力系统及节能技术、船机修造工程、通信与信息系统、海洋环境保护、海事法规体系等领域，集中了一批专业理论深厚、科研能力较强的知名专家、教授和学术思想活跃、富有创新精神的青年骨干。
　　大连海事大学十分注重对外交往和校际交流。改革开放以来，与俄罗斯、美国、日本、英国、韩国、澳大利亚、瑞典、埃及、越南等国家的20余所国际著名的航海院校正式建立了校际合作关系，在合作办学、互派访问学者和留学生、合作科研等方面一直保持实质性联系，合作的领域正在不断拓宽。学校还与多个国际组织和机构建立了长期合作关系，其中包括：国际海事组织（IMO）、国际海事大学联合会（IAMU）、亚太航海院校联合会（AMETIAP）、国际航海教师联合会（IMLA）、亚太经合组织（APEC）、国际航运协会（ISF）、国际船级社协会（IACS）以及世界著名的航运公司。学校还积极探索办学新模式，1992年成立了由百余家港航企事业单位参加的校企董事会。
　　大连海事大学所取得的成就以及在国内外所享有的声誉得到了中央领导的充分肯定和高度评价，1993年8月22日和10月20日，江泽民、温家宝、曾庆红、李岚清等党和国家领导人先后视察了大连海事大学。江泽民同志亲笔为学校题词：“坚定、严谨、勤奋、开拓，建设世界第一流的高等航海学府！”

DALIAN MARITIME UNIVERSITY

　　Dalian Maritime University (DMU), the sole key university under the administration of the Ministry of Communications, is a renowned higher learning institution of navigation in the People’s Republic of China, and one of the few institutions of maritime education acknowledged by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to enjoy an international prestige.
　　DMU has a rich history of development, which can trace back to the Shipping Affairs Department of Shanghai Industrial Institute (also named the South Sea Public School), set up by the ministry of the Post and Communications in the Qing Dynasty in 1909. In 1953, Dalian Marine college was established through the amalgamation of Shanghai Nautical College, Northeast Navigation College an Fujian Navigation College, thus emerging as the only higher learning institution of navigation of the time. In 1960, it was proclaimed a national key university. In 1983 the Asia-pacific Region Maritime Training Center was established by the UNDP and IMO, and in 1985, the Dalian Branch of the World Maritime University was opened here. In 1994 Dalian Marine College was renamed Dalian Maritime University, and Chinese President Jiang Zemin gave his approval of the new name of the institution. From 1997 onward, DMU began Project 211. In 1998, DMU passed the Quality System Accreditation of China’s National Harbor Superintendence and DNV. DMU is now a leader among the higher learning institutions of navigation worldwide as to the scale and stale and status of academic studies and research.
　　DMU located in the southwest part of the coastal city of Dalian in Northeast China. DMU’s campus covers 0.9 square kilometers, the buildings cover approximately 0.44sq. km.. It is equipped with the a computing center, an audio-visual teaching center, a navigation training and research center, a library, a natatorium, a planetarium, a simulated navigation laboratory, a simulated marine engineering laboratory, over 40 laboratories for teaching and research purposes, and 2 vessels of 10,000 tonnage to facilitate teaching.
　　DMU consists of 12 colleges and 4 departments. The colleges include Navigation, Marine Engineering, Transportation & Logistics, Information Engineering, Computer Science and Technology, Law, Business, Humanity and Social Science, Environmental Science and Engineering, Automation and Electrical Engineering, International Cooperation and Adult Education. The departments include Foreign Language, Mathematics and Physics, Physical Education and Postgraduate Study. DMU now offers 25 specialties for undergraduates, 24 specialties for master degree candidates, and 9 specialty of national secondary priority for doctorate students, and a post-doctorate mobile research center. The total number of fully registered students now reaches almost 13,000. Science the amalgamation in 1953, DMU has trained over 40,000 highly competent personnel, the majority of whom have become the backbone of the navigation sector. In addition, DMU has trained more than 2,000 overseas students and personnel from over 30 countries and regions.
　　DMU has a teaching staff of excellent quality, well distributed across a range of disciplines, with over 150 professors and a large team of promising young lectures. The academic research capacity of the staff is powerful and research projects center on marine transportation engineering, navigational information technology, marine intelligence programming, marine power system and energy-saving technology, marine mechanical maintenance engineering, communication information systems, marine environmental protection, and maritime law, thus forms a galaxy of celebrated experts, scholars with profound theories and research competence, and a large group of young researchers with progressive and innovation ideas.
　　DMU attaches much importance to inter-institutional and international exchange and cooperation. Since China’s reform and opening up in late 1970s, It has officially established cooperative relations with over 20 world-famous navigational learning institutions in Japan, Korea, the United Kingdoms, Australia, Vietnam, Sweden, Russia, USA and Egypt, and has been cooperating closely in real terms with them in such fields as joint educational programs, exchange of visiting scholars and students, and joint academic research projects, and these areas of cooperative relationship with many international organization, such as IMO, IAMU, AMETRAP, IMLA, APEC, ISF, IACS and some internationally renowned companies.
　　DMU’s great achievements and its prestige both at home and aboard have been spoken highly of by China’s state leaders. In 1993, on August 22nd and October 20th respectively, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and State Council Vice-Premier Li Lanqing visited DMU. President Jiang Zemin was delighted at DMU’s rapid progress and encouraged as following:
“Be Steadfast, Vigorous, Industrious and Pioneering; Build Dalian Maritime University into a world-renowned one!”