The faculty was granted the habilitiation rights in the area of technical science, field of technical sciences, discipline transport with the decision of the Central Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles on 26th January this year. The application to gain the rights was filed in May last year. Gaining of the habilitation rights is the sign of recognition of the academic achievements of the Faculty of Navigation and accomplishments of our staff. This is also the proof of the scientific and research potential of our team. We are really proud as this definitely raises the importance of the faculty and motivates us to continue work – says the Dean, PhD. Eng. Master Mariner Jerzy Hajduk, Professor of the Maritime University of Szczecin

So far the faculty has had the right to confer the degree of a doctor in the field of transport as well as geodesy and cartography. Thus, it has been authorised to offer doctoral studies (of the third cycle) in the above mentioned disciplines. Now it has full academic rights, which makes it easier to initiate the procedure for conferring of a professor title at this faculty (so far, applications for conferring of a professor title to employees of the Faculty of Navigation were addressed to other universities).

The Faculty of Navigation of the Maritime University is, thus, the fourth faculty in Poland with habilitation rights in the discipline of transport (except for the Faculty of Transport of the Warsaw University of Technology, the Faculty of Transport and Electrical Engineering of the University of Technology and Humanities in Radom as well as the Faculty of Machines and Transportation of the Poznan University of Technology).