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Overweight and obesity are becoming an increasingly serious challenge to the maritime industry where personnel must be healthy and fit. Maritime students, at their training stage should meet health and fitness criteria. The objective of the study is to determine the overweight and obesity rates among the maritime education students enrolled on the 1st semester of SY 2018-2019 (n= 491). Based on the anthropometric parameters and BMI of overweight and obesity among the maritime students or future seafarers was investigated. This is a retrospective study; the research underlying this study was conducted upon admission procedure during the medical examination for the maritime education students enrolled on the first semester of School Year 2018-2019. In this paper, the following measurements were taken into account: body height in centimeters, body weight in kilograms, age, sex, course and year of study were subject to analysis to calculate the arithmetic average, standard deviation (SD), and range (min-max), while the BMI were compared to pre-determined categories (standards). The total population in the study was composed of 491 students. The male students predominate to 474 or 38.7% of the population while only 17 or 1.2% was female as anticipated since shipping has historically been a male dominated industry and that tradition runs up to present (Mukherjee, 2019). The average age of the students’ were 22 years old (range from 17 to 28). According to BMI scores, it was observed that the 3rd year BS Marine Transportation students were more likely overweight while the 3rd year marine engineering students had the highest BMI of obese. The predominant age of overweight students were 18 years old both from 1st Year BSMT and BSMarE respectively. While, the 3rd year BSMT and BSMarE had the significant number of obese at the age of 20 years old. This is a crucial stage of their three year curriculum since the fourth year will be the on board training. In conclusion, under conditions of the school where the institute physician will undertake each medical examination, the decision taken by the examining doctor has to reflect the fitness, provision of suitable dietary choices, and motivation to control weight. It is also reasonable to issue a certificate that the students meet the physical demands during their basic safety training and before embarking on board on their fourth year apprenticeship program.