Where is the best university for studying naval architecture?

I'm a Thai student and already graduated Bachelor's degree in Computer animation but I have realize that I'm interested in naval architecture more than the last course. I have a lot of doubts. Firstly, do they have some kinds of Master's degree in naval architecture? and I can participate in the course or not. Secondly, which is the best university to study in this subject? I have heard about the University of Stratchclyde in Glasgow which is reliable for many ship building companies all aroud the world. Is that the truth?

 

In Thailand, there is NA course in Kasetsart Uni; this is Bachelor course.

 

I'm quite interested studying aboard. Do you have any advices?

 

Southampton in UK or Chalmers in Sweden could be possible choice.

But You have to check the requirements, I doubt You will be admitted to study Master in NA without previous degree in related field.

 

How do u think about University of Newcastle and University of Strathclyde?

 

if you have money go to TU Delft,Netherlands the best . or look if they have any funding.

 

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has a masters degree program in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. They call it "Ocean Engineering (Naval Engineering)". It can be taken as either an online program or a resident program. They claim the training is equivalent either way. I think it is also possible to do the program partly online and partly as a resident student.

I understand that normally a student will work on a project as part of the program, and it may be a teamwork project performed with other students. I am not in the field of naval architecture, but it seems to me that doing a teamwork project in which you will have to coordinate with other students who are working remotely from you could be a good thing. It seems that the trend in a number of professions is to work as a team with people you communicate with over the internet. (I myself have published scientific papers with people whom I have never met in person, or have only met after a paper was submitted.) This program could be good training for that kind of work environment.

They have a number of prerequisites for the course, mostly engineering and math coursework.

I believe it is a rather small program. According to one source in one recent year they graduated 5 students.

This may be an attractive option if you want to save money by not moving to a foreign country for your schooling. However, as a non-resident student your tuition will be quite high.

Additional note added in editing: By way of clarifications, when I say "non-resident" I mean someone who is not a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, regardless of whether they are taking the coursework on-site at the University or the online program. Thus, if a student is considered a non-resident student (which would often be the case if a student is an on-campus student but is from a different state or a different country) they would pay out of state tuition, regardless of whether they were actually on-campus or not.

 

University of New Orleans is one of the best.

 

Gooday there - The answer is to ask the best of the best - that there is in marine design. So having said that - e-mail Nigel Irens - personally address the e-mail to him - someone in his staff will be smart enough to pass it on to him & wow - he'll give your the best answer that he can & that you're ever likely to get. Compared to Nigel - the rest of us - are - rather a bit - amateur-ish.

Try that - it'll work - - I'm sure. Caio, james

 

Newcastle is very good...Strathclyde also, but more offshore engineering bias.

As Alik pointed out, you would only be accepted for an undergraduate degree (Bachelors) not a postgraduate (Masters), as your degree is not related to the Masters at all.

I can highly recommend Southampton.

 

My boss said the same thing. I think UMich and MIT are the other biggies, least in the US (at MIT I think it's under the MechE dept). My boss got his NA from UMich.

 

University of New Orleans has a Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Department which was established in 1980 and my understanding is that it is now substantial.

MIT has not had a separate naval architecture / ocean engineering department since 2004. There is now a "Center for Ocean Engineering" within the Mechanical Engineering Department. While the list of faculty members on the center's website is quite lengthy I wonder how many are actively engaged in it's activities.

 

Just out of curiousity, how about some of the smaller programs or lesser-known programs in the US, such as University of Wisconsin, Stevens Institute of Technology, Virginia Tech, and perhaps a few others?

 

Do you have any information about a naval architecture / ocean engineering course at University of Wisconsin? I don't see anything on their College of Engineering's website.

 

I took my information from a couple of websites that summarize programs at various colleges. A couple of examples:

http://degree.matchcollege.com/coll...201/Naval-Architecture-and-Marine-Engineering
http://www.stateuniversity.com/program/14-2201/Naval-Architecture-and-Marine-Engineering

Possibly those websites are wrong.

Alternatively, I wonder if the University's Navy ROTC program has an option for Naval Architecture.