The need to monitor the quality of marine specialists training is determined by the rapidly developing technologies implemented in the maritime industry and, in this regard, by the growing requirements to the level of training specialists serving this industry. Despite the mandatory quality standards of maritime education, set by the International maritime organization and national educational standards, the question remains open, since this process is endless, as progress is endless. Therefore, the idea of training a specialist ready to perform constantly emerging new tasks does not lose its relevance. The article proposes the principles of the arrangement of the educational process quality monitoring, which allow not only to ensure its integrity, taking into account the material, technical, scientific, methodological and legal support, but also to implement the monitoring process, taking into account timely information about the current results, in order to adjust this process as necessary and make new introductory ones to get a real picture of monitoring. The proposed article also pays attention to monitoring the quality of distance learning, which is gaining popularity, and shows the difficulties of its organization suggesting ways of overcoming them. The idea of creating a scientific laboratory is expressed, the purpose of which will be to create a specially developed educational and methodological complex that will be able to provide variability in the content of the monitoring process using various methods for assessing the levels of building competence in future marine specialists, as well as interaction of educational process participants aiming at monitoring the results of training, including distance learning.