The College of Shipbuilding Engineering, dates back to the Naval Engineering Department of the PLA Military Engineering Institute, established in 1953, and is now the key for scientific research and education base in China’s shipbuilding industry, naval equipment and marine development. In 2017, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering was approved for the National Plan of “double first-class” disciplines and awarded A+ in the fourth national evaluation of academic subject carried out by the Ministry of Education of China.

Among the College’s 185 faculty members, 145 are full-time teachers (46 professors, 71 associate professors), with 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and 10 national-level talents. There are 70 PhD student supervisors (including 10 part-time) and 128 master student supervisors (including 21 part-time). In the past 5 years, the average annual scientific research fund has increased to 240 million Yuan. The College has published more than 2,000 research papers and 40 books. Over 50 scientific research achievements have won national and provincial awards.

The College offers 3 undergraduate programs, namely, naval architecture and marine engineering; port, channel and coastal engineering; and marine robotics. “Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering” “Mechanics” and “Hydraulic Engineering” have approved as the first-level master programs. The master program of “Civil Hydraulic Engineering” has also been approved and certified. The college has 2 first-level PhD programs:  “Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering” and “Mechanics”. The college has a Center for Post-doctoral Studies of “Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering”. The discipline of “Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering” is a national first-class undergraduate program, a national-level featured major. The discipline of “Port, Channel and Coast Engineering” has obtained the national engineering education professional certification and is a first-class undergraduate program of Heilongjiang Province.

The college has 5 national scientific research platforms, including one key national laboratory of underwater robotics, one national experimental teaching demonstration center for naval architecture and marine engineering, one national maritime virtual simulation experiment teaching center, China-Russia joint laboratory for polar technology and equipment, and one international joint research center for naval architecture and marine engineering mechanics. It also has 9 provincial-level scientific research labs and centers.

The College has been collaborating with over 30 internationally renowned universities and research institutes. The student employment rate has always been above 95%, and over 70% of the graduates are employed in the shipbuilding industry.