The study complies with the most recent requirements of education of the managing personnel on board merchant vessels. Besides the compliance of the study programme with STCW Convention, the Faculty is provided with the most up-to-date equipment necessary for acquiring knowledge and skills required.

After the students have attended courses and passed relative exams of the undergraduate study, i.e. after they have settled all their obligations laid down by the approved study programme, The Faculty will issue them Certificates. The Certificate is issued with the purpose of acquiring certificates of competence and additional competences under the provisions of The Regulation on Requirements for the Award of Ranks and Certification of Seafarers on Board Merchant Ships of the Republic of Croatia. Furthermore, students are issued appropriate Certificates on Completed Training Programmes, which along with a certain practice on board allows acquiring the highest rank in shipping – master on board ship with propulsion power of more than 3000 GT.

With the undergraduate study programme of Nautical engineering a special account has been taken of its compliance with the study programmes of other international maritime universities as well as with the respective study at the Faculty of Maritime Studies in Rijeka and Maritime Department of the University of Dubrovnik, which has enabled mobility of students and teachers.