Dalian Maritime University

Dalian Maritime University (DLMU) is a public university in Dalian, Liaoning, China, specialising in shipping, navigation and marine engineering within a broader engineering curriculum.大连海事大学（Dalian Maritime University，简称 DLMU）是位于中国辽宁省大连市的公办大学，以航运、航海与轮机工程为特色，并发展多学科工科教育。

It is directly under the Ministry of Transport and is jointly built by the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Education, Liaoning Province and the city of Dalian.学校直属交通运输部，由交通运输部、教育部、辽宁省与大连市共建。

Its lineage reaches back to the navigation section created at the Shanghai Higher Industrial School in 1909, its present institution was formed by the 1953 merger of three maritime colleges, and it placed in the 701-800 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.学校源流可追溯至 1909 年上海高等实业学堂设立的船政科，1953 年由三所海运院校合并组建，并在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列第 701-800 名区间。

History

• In 1909 the Ministry of Posts and Communications' Shanghai Higher Industrial School, the predecessor of Nanyang Public School, opened a navigation section, an act the university treats as the beginning of Chinese higher maritime education.1909 年，晚清邮传部上海高等实业学堂即南洋公学的前身设立船政科，学校把这一举措视为中国高等航海教育的开端。
• A dedicated Shanghai Higher Merchant Marine School was founded on the basis of that section in 1911 and was renamed the Wusong Merchant Marine School in 1912.1911 年，以船政科为基础创办了邮传部上海高等商船学堂，1912 年改名为吴淞商船学校。
• The school became the National Wusong Merchant Marine College in 1928, but Japanese invasion and the subsequent civil war forced it to suspend teaching for long periods.1928 年，学校更名为国立吴淞商船高等专科学校，但日本侵华与随后的内战使其一度停办。
• In 1950 the National Wusong Merchant Marine College merged with the shipping management department of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the maritime section of the Shanghai Customs Tax School to form the Shanghai Nautical College.1950 年，国立吴淞商船专科学校与上海交通大学航业管理系、上海海关总署税务专科学校海事班合并，成立上海航务学院。
• In the northeast, a merchant ship school was planned at Harbin in March 1927 and closed after the city fell in the Mukden Incident of 1931.在东北，1927 年 3 月哈尔滨开始筹建东北商船学校，1931 年九一八事变后哈尔滨沦陷，学校停办。
• In February 1937 the Manchukuo Ministry of Transport opened a higher crew training institute in Harbin on the site of the former merchant ship school.1937 年 2 月，满洲国交通部在东北商船学校原址开设培养航运专门技术人才的高等船员养成所。
• The institute moved to Huludao in September 1943 and was renamed the National Higher Crew Training Institute, teaching navigation and marine engineering to more than 150 students with 15 full-time and part-time teachers.该所于 1943 年 9 月迁往葫芦岛，改称国立高等船员养成所，设航海、轮机两个专业，有学生 150 余人、专兼职教员 15 人。
• The institute occupied a two-storey building with eight classrooms, 40 dormitory rooms and four instrument rooms, and kept motor launches and sailing boats for practical instruction.养成所占用一栋二层楼房，设教室 8 间、宿舍 40 间、仪器室 4 间，并配有汽艇与舢板供实习使用。
• In November 1946 the national government created the National Huludao Merchant Ship College on that foundation, and teaching resumed on 14 April 1947 with 64 students of the seventh, eighth and ninth cohorts returning.1946 年 11 月，国民政府在原高等船员养成所基础上成立国立葫芦岛商船专科学校，1947 年 4 月 14 日正式开学，原养成所七、八、九期 64 人返校复学。
• The college was renamed the National Liaohai Merchant Ship College in May 1947, adopted a five-year curriculum with three years of study and two years of practice, and enrolled 199 students with 69 staff, including 12 professors.1947 年 5 月，学校改名为国立辽海商船专科学校，学制五年，其中三年在校授课、两年实习，在校生 199 人、教职工 69 人，内含教授 12 人。
• In 1947 the college admitted 40 new students each into navigation and marine engineering and a further 65 into a preparatory class that bridged the four-year Manchukuo and six-year mainland school systems.1947 年，学校航海、轮机两专业各招收新生 40 名，另设先修班招收 65 人，以衔接满洲国四年制与关内六年制中学的学制差异。
• A Japanese Type C escort vessel received as war reparations in 1948 became the training ship Liaohai, giving cadets their first sea-going platform.1948 年，学校接收一艘日本赔偿的丙型海防舰作为实习船，命名为「辽海」号，学员由此有了海上训练平台。
• When the Liaoshen campaign opened in September 1948 the college moved to Tianjin and then to a private residence in the Lingjing hutong of Beiping.1948 年 9 月辽沈战役打响后，学校迁往天津，后转至北平灵镜胡同的一处私宅办学。
• In January 1949 president Shi Fujin asked the Taiwan provincial authorities for premises to relocate the college, was refused, and sailed for Keelung with a few teachers and students, the ministry's files and two hundred crates of books.1949 年 1 月，校长士福金致函台湾省方面请求迁台并代筹校舍，遭拒绝后带少数师生、教育部档案与两百箱图书乘「辽海轮」驶抵基隆。
• The Beiping military control commission took over the college in February 1949 and moved it to Shenyang in March, where it merged with other schools into the Northeast Transportation Specialised School.1949 年 2 月，北平军事管制委员会接管学校，3 月师生抵达沈阳，与东北邮电学校等合并为东北交通专门学校。
• In August 1949 that school was dissolved into a Northeast Merchant Ship College and a Northeast Postal Vocational School, and the merchant ship college moved to Dalian in 1950 as the Northeast Navigation Specialised School.1949 年 8 月，东北交通专门学校解散，分别成立东北商船专科学校与东北邮电高级职业学校，商船专科学校于 1950 年迁往大连并改名东北航海专科学校。
• The Dalian institution was upgraded to the Northeast Navigation College in May 1951, completing the chain that would feed into the 1953 merger.1951 年 5 月，设在大连的学校改为东北航海学院，这条沿革链最终汇入 1953 年的合并。
• The Fujian line began with the private Jimei Advanced Fishery and Navigation School of March 1927, part of the Jimei school complex founded by Tan Kah Kee.福建一脉始于 1927 年 3 月创办的私立集美高级水产航海学校，该校属于陈嘉庚创办的集美学村。
• After the war began the Jimei schools moved into the Confucian temple at Anxi in January 1938 and taught as a united middle school, and the fishery and navigation courses regained independent status in 1939 and their original name in 1941.抗战爆发后，集美各校于 1938 年 1 月迁入安溪文庙合并办学，定名福建私立集美联合中学，水产航海等科于 1939 年独立为职业学校，1941 年恢复原名。
• In 1952 the Jimei merchant ship college merged with the shipping section of Xiamen University and the navigation programme of the Fujian Provincial Advanced Aeronautical Machinery and Merchant Ship Vocational School, which descended from the Fujian Naval School, to form the Fujian Navigation College.1952 年，集美水产商船专科学校与厦门大学航务专修科、福建省立高级航空机械商船职业学校航海专业合并，成立福建航海专科学校，后者前身为福建船政学堂艺圃。
• In March 1953 the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Higher Education moved the Fujian and Shanghai schools to Dalian and merged them with the Northeast Navigation College to create the Dalian Marine College, then China's only higher maritime institution.1953 年 3 月，交通部与高教部决定把福建航海专科学校、上海航务学院迁至大连，在东北航海学院基础上合并成立大连海运学院，当时是中国唯一的高等航海学府。
• The college was designated a national key university in 1960, a status conferred on a small group of institutions given priority in funding and graduate training.1960 年，学校被确定成为全国重点大学，这一身份只授予少数在经费与研究生培养上获得优先支持的院校。
• In 1983 the United Nations Development Programme and the International Maritime Organization established the Asia-Pacific Regional Maritime Training Centre at the college, its first major international mandate.1983 年，联合国开发计划署与国际海事组织在学校设立亚太地区国际海事培训中心，这是学校承担的首个重要国际职能。
• A branch of the World Maritime University was established at the college in 1985, and the institution was renamed Dalian Maritime University in 1994.1985 年，世界海事大学在学校设立分校，1994 年学校更名为大连海事大学。
• The university entered the 211 Project in 1997, absorbed the Dalian Maritime School in 2000, and opened an overseas campus at the Colombo International Nautical Engineering College in Sri Lanka in 2007.学校于 1997 年进入「211 工程」重点建设，2000 年大连海事学校并入，2007 年在斯里兰卡科伦坡国际航海工程学院设立海外校区。
• On 6 June 2009 the university marked its centenary in the presence of Chen Zhili, vice chairwoman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and Li Shenglin, the minister of transport.2009 年 6 月 6 日，学校举行百年校庆，全国人大常委会副委员长陈至立、交通运输部部长李盛霖出席庆典。
• In September 2017 the university was included in the first round of the Double First-Class Construction, which replaced the 985 and 211 lists as the main national designation for research universities.2017 年 9 月，学校进入首轮「双一流」建设名单，该名单取代「985」「211」成为国家重点建设高校的主要标识。
• In March 2016 the Ministry of Transport reviewed the university's comprehensive reform plan under minister Yang Chuantang, and in May 2017 it issued guidance on building the university into a world-class maritime institution.2016 年 3 月，交通运输部部长杨传堂主持审议学校综合改革方案，2017 年 5 月交通运输部又印发关于推进学校建设世界一流海事大学的实施意见。

Academics

• The university is organised into 14 colleges and departments and offers 42 undergraduate programmes, most of them in navigation, marine engineering, transport management, shipping law and information technology.学校设有 14 个学院（系），开设 42 个本科专业，多数集中在航海、轮机工程、运输管理、航运法律与信息技术领域。
• Its colleges range from navigation and marine engineering to transport management, shipping economics, maritime law, information science and environmental engineering, a breadth unusual for a school defined by its maritime identity.学校的学院设置从航海、轮机延伸到运输管理、航运经济、海商法、信息科学与环境工程，其学科广度在以海事为标识的院校中并不常见。
• Its graduate provision comprises two first-level doctoral programmes, 12 second-level doctoral programmes, seven first-level master's programmes and 59 second-level master's programmes.研究生教育方面，学校拥有 2 个一级学科博士点、12 个二级学科博士点、7 个一级学科硕士点与 59 个二级学科硕士点。
• Transport Engineering, its leading discipline, has a post-doctoral research and development base, and the university also awards the MBA, MPA, Juris Master and Master of Engineering degrees.交通运输工程作为学校的优势学科设有博士后科研基地，学校还可授予工商管理硕士、公共管理硕士、法律硕士与工程硕士学位。
• The university is one of the institutions selected for Project 211, a programme that took in only about six per cent of Chinese universities, and it is part of the Double First-Class Construction.学校是「211 工程」入选高校之一，该工程仅覆盖全国约百分之六的高校，学校同时进入「双一流」建设序列。
• Navigation, marine engineering, transport engineering and maritime law form the core of its teaching, and the curriculum is tied to the certification requirements of seagoing officers.航海技术、轮机工程、交通运输工程与海商法构成教学核心，课程设置与远洋船员的适任证书要求相衔接。
• More than 100 teaching and research laboratories include a navigation simulator and a marine engine room simulator used for officer training.学校拥有 100 余个教学科研实验室，其中包括用于船员培训的航海模拟实验室与轮机模拟实验室。
• A teaching harbour basin, a lifeboat and survival training hall, and a planetarium support practical instruction in seamanship and celestial navigation.教学港池、水上求生训练馆与天象馆，为船艺与天文航海等实践教学提供条件。
• The university operates the Yukun, a 10,000-tonne ocean-going training ship, together with the Yulong and Qingyun, two bulk and general cargo vessels used for cadet sea time.学校拥有万吨级远洋教学实习船「育鲲」轮，以及「育龙」轮与「青云」轮两条散杂货实习船，用于学生的海上实习。
• Two libraries and two swimming pools serve a community that trains for a profession in which both navigation and survival skills are examined.学校建有两座图书馆与两座游泳馆，服务于以航海与求生技能考核为职业指向的教学体系。
• The Asia-Pacific Regional Maritime Training Centre, created in 1983 by UNDP and the IMO, runs short courses for maritime administrators and instructors from across the region.1983 年由联合国开发计划署与国际海事组织设立的亚太地区国际海事培训中心，面向区域内海事管理人员与教员开设短期课程。
• The World Maritime University branch established in 1985 links the Dalian campus to the Malmö-based graduate institution run by the International Maritime Organization.1985 年设立的世界海事大学分校，把大连校区与国际海事组织在马尔默举办的研究生教育机构连接起来。
• The Colombo International Nautical Engineering College in Sri Lanka, opened in 2007, was among the earliest overseas campuses established by a Chinese university.2007 年在斯里兰卡开办的科伦坡国际航海工程学院，是中国高校较早设立的海外校区之一。
• The university is a member of the University of the Arctic, a circumpolar network of more than 200 institutions interested in northern education and research.学校是北极大学联盟成员，该联盟由 200 多个关注北极教育与研究的机构组成。
• Teaching is supported by the university's own fleet, simulators and harbour basin rather than by partner shipping companies alone, which allows continuous practical training on campus.学校的教学依托自有船队、模拟器与教学港池，而不完全依赖合作航运企业，使实践训练能够在校园内持续进行。
• Programmes in transport engineering and logistics draw on Dalian's position as a major port and on the university's links with the Ministry of Transport.交通运输工程与物流类专业借助大连的港口地位以及学校与交通运输部的隶属关系开展教学。
• Postgraduate training is concentrated in the doctoral programmes in transport engineering and marine engineering, which supply faculty to maritime institutions across China.研究生培养集中于交通运输工程与轮机工程等博士点，为中国各航海院校输送师资。

Campus

• The university occupies 1.38 million square metres in the southwest of Dalian, with 970,000 square metres of building floor space.学校坐落于大连市西南部，占地面积 138 万平方米，校舍建筑面积 97 万平方米。
• It is divided into four campuses, Dongshan, Xishan, Linghai and Yangshugou, each assigned to a different part of the teaching mission.学校共分东山、西山、凌海与杨树沟四个校区，各承担不同的教学职能。
• Dongshan campus is reserved for navigation students, who live there as well as study, while Xishan campus serves students in non-navigation disciplines.东山校区主要用于航海类专业学生的学习与生活，西山校区则主要供非航海类专业学生使用。
• Linghai campus is used for practical training of navigation students, and Yangshugou campus houses the college of continuing education.凌海校区用于航海类学生的实习训练，杨树沟校区则由继续教育学院使用。
• The teaching harbour basin is a sheltered water area on campus where cadets practise boat handling, mooring and rescue drills.教学港池是校园内的静水水域，学员在此练习操船、系泊与救助演练。
• Seven canteens serve the residential campuses, and most non-navigation students live in a newly built student living area outside the two older campuses.学校共有七座食堂，非航海类学生大多居住在两座老校区之外新建的学生生活区。
• The navigation teaching and laboratory buildings, the navigation training and engineering practice centre and the survival training hall form a compact training quarter on Dongshan campus.航海类专业教学实验楼群、航海训练与工程实践中心与水上求生训练馆，在东山校区构成一个紧凑的训练区。
• The campus faces the sea at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, and its training ships berth within reach of the teaching harbour basin.校区位于辽东半岛南端、临海而建，实习船停泊在距教学港池不远的水域。
• Dalian's port and shipbuilding industry surround the campus, giving students access to terminals, repair yards and shipping companies within the same city.大连的港口与造船工业环绕校园，学生在同一座城市即可接触码头、修船厂与航运企业。

Reputation

• Dalian Maritime University placed in the 701-800 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.大连海事大学在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列第 701-800 名区间。
• The university did not enter the 2027 QS World University Rankings and did not enter the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.学校未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名，也未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News global university ranking the university was placed 736th in the world.在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学排名中，学校位列全球第 736 名。
• Dalian Maritime University is one of a small group of Chinese universities administered directly by a ministry other than the Ministry of Education, which gives it a direct line to national transport policy.大连海事大学是中国少数由教育部以外部委直接管理的高校之一，这使其与国家交通运输政策保持直接联系。
• Its inclusion in Project 211, which covered only about six per cent of Chinese universities, remains the clearest marker of its standing in national higher education policy.学校进入仅覆盖全国约百分之六高校的「211 工程」，仍是其在国内高教政策格局中地位的最清晰标志。
• In 2017 the Ministry of Transport issued a formal opinion on building the university into a world-class maritime institution, a policy commitment no other Chinese maritime school has received.2017 年交通运输部专门印发文件，推进学校建设世界一流海事大学，这一政策承诺为中国其他航海院校所未有。
• At its founding in 1953 the Dalian Marine College was the only higher maritime institution in China, and it supplied teachers to most of the maritime schools that were created later.1953 年建校时，大连海运学院是中国唯一的高等航海学府，此后新建的多数航海院校都有其师资输出。
• The Asia-Pacific Regional Maritime Training Centre and the World Maritime University branch give the university a standing within the International Maritime Organization system.亚太地区国际海事培训中心与世界海事大学分校，使学校在国际海事组织体系中占有一席之地。
• Its training ship fleet, including the 10,000-tonne Yukun, is among the largest operated by any university in the world.学校包括万吨级「育鲲」轮在内的实习船队，规模在世界各高校中位居前列。
• Graduates hold certificates that are recognised for service on ocean-going vessels, and the university's degrees in navigation and marine engineering are accredited for officer licensing.学校毕业生所持证书可用于远洋船舶任职，航海技术与轮机工程等专业的学位与船员适任考试相衔接。

Student life

• Navigation cadets live on Dongshan campus, where dormitories, classrooms and training facilities stand within walking distance of the harbour basin.航海类专业学员住在东山校区，宿舍、教室与训练设施距离教学港池均在步行范围内。
• Cadets spend part of their degree aboard the Yukun, the Yulong or the Qingyun, accumulating the sea time required for certification.学员在攻读学位期间要在「育鲲」「育龙」或「青云」轮上实习，积累适任证书所要求的海上资历。
• Practical drills include lifeboat handling in the water survival training hall, fire fighting and damage control exercises, and simulator sessions in the navigation and engine room laboratories.实践训练包括在水上求生训练馆演练救生艇操作、消防与损管演习，以及在航海与轮机模拟实验室进行模拟操船。
• The centennial on 6 June 2009 brought alumni from shipping companies and port authorities back to Dalian for ceremonies attended by national leaders.2009 年 6 月 6 日的百年校庆，吸引了来自航运企业与港务部门的校友返校，国家领导人出席了庆典。
• Seven canteens and two swimming pools serve a student body that spends much of its week in uniformed training rather than in ordinary lectures.七座食堂与两座游泳馆服务的学生群体，每周有大量时间用于制服训练而非普通课堂学习。
• Students in non-navigation disciplines live in the newer living area, where they mix with the humanities, law and management cohorts of the Xishan campus.非航海类专业学生住在较新的生活区，与西山校区的人文、法学与管理类学生共同生活。
• The Sri Lanka campus and the University of the Arctic membership give students exchange options that few Chinese engineering universities can match.斯里兰卡海外校区与北极大学联盟成员身份，为学生提供了中国工科院校中少见的选择。
• Because the university is directly under the Ministry of Transport, graduates move into shipping companies, port groups, classification societies and maritime safety administrations across the country.由于学校直属交通运输部，毕业生分布在全国的航运企业、港口集团、船级社与海事管理机构。

Notable people

• Chen Zhenggao, a graduate of the university, served as governor of Liaoning from 2014 and as minister of housing and urban-rural development from 2017.毕业于该校的陈政高，2014 年起任辽宁省省长，2017 年起任住房和城乡建设部部长。
• Qian Yongchang, another alumnus, was minister of transport from 1991 to 1993 after a career as a master mariner and shipping executive.同为校友的钱永昌在远洋船长与航运企业管理者的职业生涯之后，于 1991 年至 1993 年任交通部部长。
• Jin Yan, the film actor of the 1930s known as China's film emperor, is listed among the university's notable alumni.20 世纪 30 年代有「电影皇帝」之称的演员金焰，列于学校的知名校友之中。
• Wang Shize, head of the Northeast Navigation Administration and former principal of the Northeast Merchant Ship School, became the first president of the National Huludao Merchant Ship College in 1946.曾任东北航政局局长与东北商船学校校长的王时泽，1946 年出任国立葫芦岛商船专科学校首任校长。
• He Zhengzhuo took over the presidency in August 1947 and resigned after being elected a legislator in 1948, when the dean of studies Shi Fujin succeeded him.何正卓于 1947 年 8 月接任校长，1948 年当选立法委员后辞职，由教务主任士福金接任。
• Chen Zhili, then vice chairwoman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, was the principal guest at the university's centenary in June 2009.时任全国人大常委会副委员长的陈至立，是 2009 年 6 月百年校庆的主要嘉宾。
• Li Shenglin, minister of transport from 2005 to 2012, attended the centenary as the representative of the ministry that runs the university.2005 年至 2012 年任交通运输部部长的李盛霖，作为主管部委代表出席百年校庆。
• Yang Chuantang, minister of transport from 2012, chaired the 2016 meeting that approved the university's comprehensive reform plan.2012 年起任交通运输部部长的杨传堂，主持了 2016 年审议通过学校综合改革方案的会议。
• Tan Kah Kee, the rubber magnate and philanthropist, founded the Jimei school complex in Fujian from which the Jimei navigation school and thus one of the three 1953 merger partners descended.橡胶大王、慈善家陈嘉庚创办了福建集美学村，集美航海学校即由此而来，并成为 1953 年合并的三校之一。