These universities award different qualifications like Bachelor of Engineering degree Bachelor of Technology (BTech) and diplomas in Marine Engineering to students on successful completion of the study.
Many prospectives students are contemplating whether to chose Marine Engineering as a career thinking about the how well is the job availability not knowing that the discipline is in high demand in South Africa.
Only three (3) universities are known to offer Marine Engineering as a programme in South Africa at the time of this post and they are:
Nelson Mandela University
- Programme: Marine Engineering
- School: Engineering
- Degree Awarded: Bachelor of Technology.
- Medium of Instruction: English Language
- Place of Instructions: North Campus
- Mode of Instruction: Full Time
Durban University of Technology
- Programme: Marine Engineering
- Faculty: Applied Sciences
- Department: Maritime Studies
- Qualifications Awarded: Advance Diploma
- Medium of Instruction: English Language
- Place of Instruction: Main Campus
- Mode of Instruction: Full Time
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
- Programme: Marine Engineering
- Faculty: Engineering and the Built Environment
- Department: Maritime Studies
- Qualification Awarded: Certificate, Diploma, Honours, Master, Doctorate.
- Medium of Instruction: English Language
- Place of Instruction: Main Campus
- Mode: Full Time
There are two courses offered at some universities in South Africa that are being confused with Marine Engineering and they are: Maritime Studies and Nautical Science.
Note: all have to do with sea activities.
While Marine Engineering is about the study, design, development, maintenance and operation of ocean and sea machines (ship, watercrafts, autonomous underwater vehicles and so on) and structures like oil and gas production platform, Maritime Studies is all about the economic and business side of the ocean and sea world while Nautical Science is about the direction and navigation on sea.
At school of higher learning, Marine Engineering is always part of the Faculty of Engineering, Maritime Studies is usually group under the Faculty of Humanities or Management and that why it is sometimes refer to as Maritime Management while Nautical Science is purely in the Faculty of Science.
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