The history of our faculty dates back to the ‘Merchant Navy Boarding School’ (Leyli Tüccar Kaptan Mektebi), which was established in 5 December 1884 at Heybeliada-Istanbul as a part of the Ottoman-Turkish Naval Academy with the aim of strengthening civilian navigation/seamanship in the country.

During the Republican era, it’s named as the ‘High Navigation School’ and continued its activities in the following decades.


Finally, in 1992, the Maritime Transportation and Management Engineering were re-established under a ‘Maritime Faculty’ and tied to the Istanbul Technical University.