The Azerbaijan State Marine Academy in 2000 is included by number 012 into the catalogue of Academy Marine Educational Institutions of the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
ÀSMÀ at faculty "Marine Engineering and Shipping" trains specialists the with a degree of the bachelor on the following

The marine education in Azerbaijan ordinates from November, 1881. In documentary materials of the central Government historical archives of the Azerbaijan Republic there is a report of the Head of the Governor General of the Baku city to the chief of the Head Department of the Caucasus Region about the opening of the Marine class in Baku on 21 st (8) of November 1881.