Filipinos comprise the largest number of seafarers manning the global shipping industry. The Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific (MAAP) is intent on nurturing not only seafarers but leaders who are highly competent and disciplined. Stressing the total development of each scholar, the virtues Virtus, Fides, Disiplina or Competence, Loyalty, Discipline are instilled in each individual from enrollment until they are prepared to set sail on a maritime career.

MAAP overlooks the sea from a 103-heactare property in Kamaya Point, Mariveles, Bataan. It is the largest private mercantile marine college in the Philippines. The Academy offers one of the best facilities and programs in the country, using course curricula designed by the United States Merchant Marine Academy at King’s Point, New York.

The relatively young institution (it was established in January 1998) is already making a mark as its graduates record the highest passing rate in Philippine government examinations for officer licenses. From 2003 to 2008, for instance, 100% of the Academy’s BSMarE (Bachelor of Science in Marine Engineering) students passed the examinations.

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