NAME Graduate Studies

The Marine Industry

The marine industry needs engineers with advanced degrees and offers them high paying career opportunities. Thousands of men and women are employed in the marine industry, and many of them are naval architects and marine engineers who work on:

• The design of ships, boats, and offshore structures
• The marine systems for shipping raw materials and finished products
• The frontiers of deep sea exploration and mineral recovery
• The operation and servicing of marine systems.

Supporting these activities are engineers and researchers with advanced degrees. The advanced UNO study programs, along with the nearby Gulf Coast, with its ship and offshore industry, shipyards, and naval and oceanographic laboratories, provide unique opportunities for career advancement.

Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the University of New Orleans

The University of New Orleans (UNO) Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NAME) program is one of the fastest growing programs in the United States. UNO-NAME graduates are employed as engineers, project managers, and business executives throughout the world.

UNO offers the Bachelor of Science in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NAME), the Master of Science in Engineering, and the Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Science.

The first UNO Masters of Engineering degree (MSE) in NAME was awarded in 1984. Since then, a large number of UNO-NAME students have earned advanced degrees and entered employment in government R&D laboratories, naval architecture and offshore engineering design firms, as well as regulatory agencies and shipyards.

Through UNO's Avondale Maritime Technology Center of Excellence a number of joint government-industry-UNO research projects are available to qualified graduate research students. A UNO graduate student research assistant receives a full tuition waiver plus a modest living allowance. This, along with graduate scholarships, have enabled increasing numbers of UNO-NAME students to complete their graduate educations and begin their careers in the marine field.