भारतीय समुद्री विश्वविद्यालय | |
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Motto | Samudra Gyanam Gyana Samudram |
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Type | Public |
Established | 14 November 2008 |
Chancellor | President of India |
Vice-Chancellor | Dr. Malini V. Shankar, IAS (Retd.) |
Administrative staff | 150 |
Location | , India |
Campus | Chennai, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Visakhapatnam |
Acronym | IMU |
Website | imu |
The Indian Maritime University, abbreviated as IMU, is a public central university directly under the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, in India. IMU is the national institution for maritime education, commercial shipping, marine engineering, and maritime administration. It is India's prestigious institution for the training of merchant Navy officers. Admissions to IMU are done through IMUCET entrance examination, which is conducted every year across the country. It was established by the Indian Maritime University Act 2008, on 14 November 2008. Before the foundation of IMU, there were seven teaching and research institutes under the Ministry of Shipping. The following legacy institutes were subsumed under IMU in 2008.
It has an All-India jurisdiction and the headquarters is at Chennai. It has six campuses in Chennai, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai Port, Navi Mumbai, and Visakhapatnam.[1][2]