1384.6 - Statistics - Tasmania, 2007

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The Australian Maritime College (AMC), based in Northern Tasmania, is the national centre for maritime education, training and research. It is the only institution in Australia offering industry-focussed maritime studies in both the higher education (university) and vocational (VET) sectors from certificate to PhD level.

Now in its 22nd year of operation, AMC attracts students from all parts of Australia and from over 50 countries.The range of courses include:

maritime business (including logistics);

fisheries and ecology;

marine resource management;

marine policy;

naval architecture;

ocean engineering;

marine and offshore systems engineering;

maritime technology management;

marine surveying; and

terminal and stevedoring management as well as the traditional seafaring courses.

AMC’s main campus is situated at Newnham, six kilometres from Launceston’s city centre. Here, Administration and the Faculty of Maritime Transport and Engineering are based. AMC’s second campus, home of the Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Environment, is at Beauty Point, about 50 km north of Launceston near the mouth of the Tamar River.

Teaching and research facilities are specialised for the maritime industry and in many cases, unique to Australia and even the southern hemisphere. In addition to well-equipped classrooms and laboratories, AMC possesses an integrated marine simulator, a diesel engine simulator, 60-metre towing tank, model test basin, cavitation tunnel, flume tank, a 64-metre navigation and seamanship training vessel, a 35-metre fisheries training vessel, a 14-metre prawn trawler and a collier that has been renovated as a stationary engineering training ship.

In addition there is a survival training centre and a marine fire-fighting centre.

The AMC is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities and International Association of Maritime Universities.

AUSTRALIAN MARITIME COLLEGE STUDENT ENROLMENTS, 2001(a)
	Enrolment

Faculties	no.

Fisheries and Marine Environment	1,488
Maritime Transport and Engineering	798
Total	2,086
(a) The enrolments detailed include all AMC students, internal and external, including VET courses conducted by AMC in NSW, NT and QLD; and under auspiced delivery arrangements. Source: Australian Maritime College.