Maine Maritime Academy
Maine Maritime Academy is a public, co-educational college located in the coastal town of Castine, Maine. Our student population numbers approximately 950 students in courses of study in engineering, management, science, and transportation. Our rigorous courses and experiential programs equip students with the practical skills, knowledge and training to launch successful careers upon completing an associate’s, bachelor’s or master’s degree. MMA students benefit from hands-on education, international sea-time aboard the Training Ship State of Maine or the Schooner Bowdoin, cadet shipping aboard commercial vessels, and cooperative education assignments. Our students become world-class mariners and engineers, supply chain managers, logistics professionals, and scientists in Maine and beyond. Maine Maritime Academy was ranked the #1 Best Public College on Money magazine’s Best Colleges list in 2014 and 2015. The college’s persistence, retention, and graduation rates are well above national averages. The job-placement rate for MMA graduates is in excess of 90 percent within 90 days of graduation. Alumni of Maine Maritime Academy work all over the world. The success of our alumni has resulted in a worldwide reputation for excellence and reliability in maritime, business and scientific fields. The alumni network connects MMA graduates with career opportunities in all of the industries and organizations we serve. The college’s history dates back to 1941 when the Academy was founded by an act of the 90th Maine Legislature on March 21 of that year.www.mainemaritime.edu
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Oct 23, 2026
Rich NapolitanoHOST
The Empire State 7 was delivered to SUNY in 2023 as part of a new generation of training ships that could also be used to support government missions.
Rich NapolitanoHOST
Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Maine Maritime Academy, and Texas A&M Maritime Academy have also received new training ships, and Cal Poly Maritime Academy's training ship is currently under construction in Philadelphia.
Rich NapolitanoHOST
The new training vessels, which are designed for 600 cadets and 100 officers, faculty, staff, and crew, are owned by the United States government, but operated by the Maritime Academies.
Rich NapolitanoHOST
That's going to do it for this edition of This Week in Shipwrecks.
Graham RoeberGUEST
Yeah, so I'm from the coast of Maine, and we've had our share of oil spills mostly dating back pre-2000.
Graham RoeberGUEST
And then I attended Maine Maritime Academy, not surprisingly coming from a small town in Maine, but kind of guided my career into the marine industry.
Graham RoeberGUEST
I went up to Alaska and was working on oil tankers working out of Valdez, and that's really where this kind of oil and water idea was planted.
Graham RoeberGUEST
I think we've seen that town 30 years later is still pretty scarred from oil.
John MarcusGUEST
There's something else going on that I've been writing about, which is we hear this constant refrain about, is college worth it? What's the return on your investment? That's gone from just becoming part of the debate to the question that students are asking when they apply to college.
John MarcusGUEST
So I, a few weeks ago, was at the Maine Maritime Academy.
John MarcusGUEST
They teach future merchant mariners.
John MarcusGUEST
They also teach engineering.
John MarcusGUEST
Schools that enroll – we talked to some schools that specialize in aviation and aeronautics.
John MarcusGUEST
Huge demand in those industries, very high starting salaries.
John MarcusGUEST
Graduates of the Maine Maritime Academy – four years after graduating, make $114,000 a year on average.
John MarcusGUEST
That's almost twice what a typical college graduate will make.
Stephen M. CarmelGUEST
That has already kicked off and is working.
Stephen M. CarmelGUEST
We have another work stream led by, in the United States, Navy reactors and Maine Maritime.
Stephen M. CarmelGUEST
Great guys up there, Craig Johnson and the folks at Maine Maritime.
Stephen M. CarmelGUEST
Awesome people.
Stephen M. CarmelGUEST
So on on workforce development and training and our partners in both AMO, MEBA, MMP and, of course, SIU.
MarkHOST
In sports, the Bruins host the Utah Mammoth tonight at 7.
SarahHOST
Bates College women's soccer beat Maine Maritime Academy 3-0.
SarahHOST
Bates men's soccer lost to Bowdoin 1-0.
MarkHOST
Central Maine Community College men's soccer lost to our tribal Southern Maine Community College 1-0.
Bill ZartlerGUEST
We've grown from 300-ish people in 2024 to 2,300 today.
Bill ZartlerGUEST
So as we build out our, our footprint and our people thing, we've got an alliance with the Maine Maritime Academy, where we've built a, a, uh, a control room in their power engineering school to help train them on turbine operations.
Bill ZartlerGUEST
We also have an internship where we rotate them through, actively recruiting through the new US Navy.
Bill ZartlerGUEST
It's a big trainer of turbine technicians.
SarahHOST
And Bates College field hockey beat the University of Southern Maine, three to nothing.
SarahHOST
Bates women's soccer will visit Maine Maritime Academy tonight at 7:00, and men's soccer will host Bowdoin tonight at 7:00 in Lewiston.
MarkHOST
Central Maine Community College women's soccer beat Southern Maine Community College, four to two.
MarkHOST
CM women's volleyball shut out York County Community College, three to nothing.
Frank RossiHOST
... a little, little late in the season for a out of conference game there, but there it is.
Frank RossiHOST
And Norwich, Maine Maritime, uh, which because of the late addition back of Maine Maritime is probably, uh, why it's being placed that late as well.
Frank RossiHOST
Um, and Gallaudet and Dean, uh, coming up as well.
Frank RossiHOST
So you can see there, uh, what's left.
Dick BowdenGUEST
And that continued for years.
Dick BowdenGUEST
It was a local college near us called the Maine Maritime Academy.
Dick BowdenGUEST
And we met a couple of the professors or instructors down there, one like Doc Watson.
Dick BowdenGUEST
The other one was a pretty good fiddle player.
Rich NapolitanoHOST
A native to Casco Bay, Maine, he spent his childhood watching the ferries and ships come and go, eventually joining Casco Bay Lines as a deckhand while still a teenager.
Rich NapolitanoHOST
He would go on to graduate from the Maine Maritime Academy in 1988 and worked with Casco Bay Lines as a ferryboat captain.
Rich NapolitanoHOST
Davidson was a knowledgeable mariner, confident, and ambitious.
Rich NapolitanoHOST
As a deck officer with ConocoPhillips in the Pacific Northwest, Davidson left a threatening voicemail for another officer who he believed was in the way of his promotion.