[1] The university aims to provide specialisation in maritime transport systems in the spheres of natural science, the humanities, technical and marine conventional trends.

MSU has seven academic buildings, forty-six laboratories and studies, libraries, and ten professional training centers imitating ship equipment.

In July 1993, Professor Leonid Lysenko set out on a solo circumnavigation in the university's forty-foot-long (12-metre) Polish-built yacht Admiral Nevelskoi, calling initially in Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Aleutian Islands and California.

[3][4] After 2010, when the wreck was identified as the missing yacht, a proposal was developed for its restoration and the establishment of a private "Admiral Nevelskoi Maritime Museum" on Rodrigues.

[4] Mutual cooperation of Pacific-Asian region countries have a good influence on the development of international relationships.