Current speciality:

140100 Shipbuilding
130100 Aeronautical and helicopter engineering

The following Bachelor and Master degree courses are available:
552600 Naval architecture and ocean engineering
Master degree program
552601 Naval architecture and marine technology

The chair/division of shipbuilding was established in 1930 as the part of the shipbuilding faculty of the Nizhny Novgorod institute of mechanical engineering. The first chair/division head was the full professor S. A. Karpov.
The chair/division has unique equipment: ice model basin.