Uniwersytet Morski w Gdyni (UMG) – Gdynia Maritime University – runs Navigation in English as full-time, eight-semester engineering studies with a practical profile at the Faculty of Navigation. The programme is for people who see their future at sea and in shipping, and want to work as ship officers trained to the international STCW standards.
Core subjects and skills include:
One maritime specialisation: the programme is taught as Maritime Transport (Transport Morski), and candidates need a secondary-school leaving certificate and a maritime health certificate.
Sea training in brief
After the first year you complete the basic safety and security course needed for sea training on the Dar Młodzieży; with these certificates and a maritime health certificate you receive a seaman's book to record supervised sea service. After the 6th semester and a three-month placement you can obtain a seafarer's certificate, which can help you find a placement on merchant ships, and after the 7th semester you can hold all the certificates required by STCW for the officer of the watch diploma. Part of the specialist training is built into classes, and extra courses are run according to shipowners' needs.
Your engineering degree, together with the required sea service and specialist training, allows you to obtain the officer of the watch diploma confirmed by the Maritime Administration – the first step towards officer and then captain positions.
Graduates can work on almost all types of merchant ships worldwide, including specialised vessels, for example in the offshore sector. With experience as an officer of the watch, you can move on to shipowners' offices. Another path is a specialist role in companies that design, supply and service navigation, safety and security systems and other installations used on seagoing ships.
As of the 2026/27 admissions, based on the programme pages at umg.edu.pl.
