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

∙ specialities:
∙ Navigation;
∙ Marine power plants and their exploitation;
∙ Marine electric equipment and automatics;
∙ Technical exploitation of the shipboard radioequipment;
∙ Organization of transportation and management on water transport;
∙ Shipbuilding - shiprepairing

In academy on 10 departments work 98 teachers, including: 4 professors - doctor of sciences, 37 senior lecturers - candidates of sciences, 24 senior teachers and 31 assistants, 2 teachers.
There are 4 research laboratories in the Academy.

The academy cooperates with higher educational institutions of the countries of Unit of Independent Governments and other foreign countries. ÀSMÀ is the member of Educational-Methodical Council at Marine Academy after Admiral Makarov in St.-Petersburg. The educational process in Academy is constructed on the basis of the law on education, normative documents of Ministry of Education of the Azerbaijan Republic and on the recommendations of IMO.

Now in academy are trained about 600 students, who besides study accept active participation in research works conducted by departments in the appropriate laboratories.

The perfection of educational process and strengthening of its connections with a science and production is at the centre of attention.

For effective work and rest of professor-teaching staff and students in Academy all conditions are created. Here function scientific and technical library numbering over 90 thousand of books in the Russian, Azerbaijan and English languages, computer centre, polyclinic, canteen, sports hall.