The building of the Higher Technical School of Naval and Oceanic Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena is located on Paseo Alfonso XIII (one of the main arteries of the city), in front of the Regional Assembly of Murcia. Its strategic location allows easy access through the main means of transport:

Bus. The Cartagena bus station is next to Plaza Bastarreche, very close to the headquarters of the School.

Train. The RENFE station is located in the Plaza de México, also close to the headquarters of the School.

Car. You can reach the city from Madrid on the A-30 (Murcia Highway), exit "Campus Alfonso XIII". From Valencia on the A-7 (Mediterranean Highway).

The University School of Naval Technical Engineering

The implementation of the Naval Technical Engineering studies was the direct consequence of what was provided by Royal Decree No. 336 of January 21, 1977, which recasts the old Cartagena Schools of Mining Technical Engineering and Industrial Technical Engineering, in the new Polytechnic University School to which the new Naval Technical Engineering studies were incorporated.

These studies arise in the city at the initiative of the Captain General of the Maritime Department of Cartagena that transfers the proposal to the Ministry of Education, requesting that, in the territory of influence of the Maritime Department, specifically in the city of Cartagena, naval studies be taught as It was already happening in Cádiz and Ferrol. As a result of these negotiations, the three cities with stockpiles in the country would offer such studies.

The initial career of naval studies in the specialty of Ship Structures, was conditioned by the precarious economic endowment, mostly collecting professors of great work experience, in this field, from EN BAZÁN, which after their working day in said company and moved by the new adventure, devoted their free time to the preparation of students to provide the business market of the naval sector with qualified graduates.

The University School of Naval Technical Engineering became part of the recently created Polytechnic University School of Cartagena (Royal Decree 336/77 of January 21, 1977), along with the other existing mining and industrial studies schools, which were later they increased with the studies of agronomists happening to depend on the University of Murcia.

Creation of the Higher Technical School of Naval and Oceanic Engineering

The Polytechnic University of Cartagena, created by Law 5, of August 3, 1998, following the modification by the National Government of the competences of Naval Technical Engineers, committed to the implementation of higher engineering studies Naval. The Interuniversity Council of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia approved on July 29, 2003 the implementation of the second cycle of Naval and Oceanic Engineering for the academic year 2003/04. The Governing Council of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia officially approved at the meeting of September 5, 2003 the implementation of the aforementioned studies, which led to the transformation of the University School of Naval Technical Engineering into the Higher Technical School of Naval and Oceanic Engineering located on the Alfonso XIII Campus.