The study of the role of maritime education on growth by exploiting the potential of the sea using literature method aims to determine the role of maritime education on growth by exploiting the potential of the sea. Maritime education greatly contributes significantly to economic growth. The field of maritime economy that has been developed was the fishing, shipping industry, maritime trade, port, shipyard and the shipbuilding industry. Human resources play a role to support the maritime economy bears a university graduate technologists shipping, shipbuilding technology, marine technology, fisheries technology, business and maritime law, port engineering and shipbuilding. The economic value of marine fisheries and aquaculture with a total production of 8.4 million tons is able to absorb the fisheries sector workforce 2,748,908 people in 2012. While the export value of sea trade was USD190 in 2014.