Webb Institute delivers a dual-degree engineering education (Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering) designed to create industry leaders from day one. Because our single, rigorous academic curriculum is paired with practical, real-world field application every single year, Webbies graduate with eight months of cumulative professional experience before they even walk across the stage.

Winter Work Term

Every January and February, students disperse from campus into industry positions across the country and around the world for an intensive, eight-week mandatory Winter Work internship.

Over four years, every student completes four distinct winter work experiences:

• Freshman Year: Shipyard work (hands-on steelwork, welding, fabrication, and basic mechanics).
• Sophomore Year: Sea term (serving as engine and deck cadets aboard commercial vessels trading domestically and internationally).
• Junior & Senior Years: Professional engineering and design offices, shipyard engineering offices, technical departments of ship operating companies, research institutions, naval architecture consultancies, and maritime technology firms.

Why it matters: Webbies begin their engineering and design careers with firsthand knowledge of how ships are built, repaired, and operated in the marine environment.

Key Career Outcome Proof Points

• 100% Career & Graduate School Placement consistently achieved within months of graduation.
• Full Tuition Scholarship for Every Student: Every admitted and enrolled U.S. citizen and permanent resident receives a full-tuition scholarship, meaning graduates enter high-earning careers without undergraduate tuition debt.
• Starting salaries are routinely among the highest of any undergraduate engineering institution in the nation.
• Direct pipelines into naval and commercial ship design and construction, offshore energy, commercial shipping, yacht design, autonomous marine systems, software and systems development, and top graduate programs (MIT, University of Michigan, Harvard Business School)