Certificate in Marine Engineering Technology

Seattle Central College’s Seattle Maritime Academy offers a Marine Engineering Technology program that combines practical shipboard experience with classroom instruction in our new, high-tech building to help you learn the theory, design, operation and maintenance of a vessel's propulsion, mechanical, and electrical systems.
Our expert instructors, with extensive at-sea experience, will help you gain practical experience in our advanced training facility equipped with a simulation labs and aboard our fleet of vessel. You will build the skills needed to operate and maintain a vessel’s propulsion system, which includes the engine, boilers, generators, pumps and other equipment and apply those skills during an at-sea internship. As a graduate of the Marine Engineering Technology program, you will be well-prepared to launch a maritime career.

Depending on your applicant type, you may need to provide different documents and/or information with your application. You must also send all required documents by the deadline and be at least 16 years old by the first day of classes

Students who will still be underage (16 or 17) by the start of classes must provide original and English-translated copies of their high school transcripts or a copy of their high school diploma.

Completion of SCIE's College Bridge Level 5

- SAT: 510 in Reading and Writing

- ACT: 19 for both English and Reading

- U.S. high school graduation with GPA of at least 2.0

- AP: English Language & Composition with a score of 3 or higher

- AP: English Literature & Composition with a score of 3 or higher

- IB: English Literature A with a score of 4 or higher (HL)

- IB: English A Language & Literature with a score of 4 or higher (HL)

- Accuplacer: Reading 86, Sentence Skills 86

- New Generation Accuplacer: Reading 257

- GED: Language Arts 145 or higher

Transcripts must show a B or 3.0 GPA, or placement in the top 20% of the class. If study occurred in countries where English is not the official language, proof that English was the medium of instruction may be required.