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Naval Postgraduate School

Coordinates: 36°35′53″N 121°52′30″W / 36.598°N 121.875°W / 36.598; -121.875
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Naval Postgraduate School
Former name
School of Marine Engineering
Motto
Praestantia Per Scientiam
Motto in English
Excellence through Knowledge
TypeGraduate school
Established1909
Parent institution
Naval University System
Endowment$5.08 million (2016)[1]
ProvostJames H. Newman
PresidentAnn E. Rondeau[2]
Students2,586
Location
Monterey
,
California
,
U.S.

36°35′53″N 121°52′30″W / 36.598°N 121.875°W / 36.598; -121.875
Campus627 acres (254 ha)
Websitenps.edu
NPS is located in the United States
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Location in the United States

Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is a Naval command with a graduate university mission, operated by the United States Navy and located in Monterey, California.

The NPS mission is to provide "defense-focused graduate education, including classified studies and interdisciplinary research, to advance the operational effectiveness, technological leadership and warfighting advantage of the Naval service."[3]

It offers master's and doctoral degrees in more than 70 fields of study to the U.S. Armed Forces, Department of Defense civilians and international partners.[4] Established in 1909, the school also offers research fellowship opportunities at the postdoctoral level through the National Academies' National Research Council research associateship program.[5]

History

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On 9 June 1909, Secretary of the Navy George von L. Meyer signed General Order No. 27, establishing a school of marine engineering at Annapolis, Maryland.

On 31 October 1912, Meyer signed Navy General Order No. 233, which renamed the school the Postgraduate Department of the United States Naval Academy. The order established courses of study in ordnance and gunnery, electrical engineering, radio telegraphy, naval construction, and civil engineering and continued the program in marine engineering.

During World War II, Fleet Admiral Ernest King, Chief of Naval Operations and Commander-in-Chief United States Fleet, established a commission to review the role of graduate education in the Navy. In 1945, Congress passed legislation to make the school a fully accredited, degree-granting graduate institution. Two years later, Congress adopted legislation authorizing the purchase of an independent campus for the school.

A postwar review team, which had examined 25 sites nationwide, had recommended the old Hotel Del Monte in Monterey, California as a new home for the Postgraduate School. During World War II, the Navy had leased the facilities, first for a pre-flight training school, then for part of the Electronics Training Program. Negotiations with the Del Monte Properties Company led to the purchase of the hotel and 627 acres (254 ha) of surrounding land for $2.13 million.

The Naval Postgraduate School moved to Monterey in December 1951. Today, the school has over 40 programs of study including highly regarded M.S. and PhD programs in management, national security affairs, electrical and computer engineering, mechanical and astronautical engineering, systems engineering, space systems and satellite engineering, physics, oceanography meteorology, and other disciplines, all with an emphasis on military applications.

Former Guantanamo Bay Naval Base commander and World War II and Korean War veteran, RADM Edward J. O'Donnell, assumed the role as superintendent of the school in 1965. He himself graduated from the school in the 1930s with a degree in ordnance engineering. He would leave the role of superintendent in 1967 after retiring from the Navy.[6]

The Naval Postgraduate School has graduated more than 40 astronauts, greater than any other graduate school in the country.[7] The school is home to the Center for Information Systems Security Studies and Research (CISR)[8] and the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS).[9] CISR is America's foremost center for defense-related research and education in Information Assurance (IA), Inherently Trustworthy Systems (ITC), and defensive information warfare; [citation needed] and CHDS provides the first homeland security master's degree in the United States.[10]

The Consortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research (CRUSER) was established at NPS in 2011. The Navy described the program as providing NPS faculty and researchers with seed funding for important research projects geared toward advancing autonomous solutions.[11]

On 27 November 2012, Vice Admiral Daniel T. Oliver (retired)[12] and Provost Dr. Leonard Ferrari were relieved of duty by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus.[13] A Navy press release cited findings from a Naval Inspector General investigation which included Oliver's misuse of standard contracting procedures to circumvent federal hiring and compensation authorities.[13] The investigation also found that both Oliver and Ferrari "inappropriately accepted gifts from an independent private foundation organized to support the school."[13]

In October 2013, retired Vice Adm. Ronald A. Route became the second civilian president of the Naval Postgraduate School. Vice Adm. Ann E. Rondeau relieved Route to become the 49th president of NPS in January 2019.

In 2019, NPS renamed its business school, the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, to the Graduate School of Defense Management (GSDM) in an effort to better signal its unique defense-focused identity and mission to strategic stakeholders and its academic peers. GSDM offers degree programs in nine different fields, ranging from logistics to information technology management to manpower, as well as three, unique distance learning programs.[14]

In December 2020, NPS leadership officially commissioned the Wayne P. Hughes Jr. Naval Warfare Studies Institute (NWSI) NWSI's mission is to expedite the DON's access to the university's intellect and resources for solving warfighting issues. NWSI consists of NPS' Senior Service Representatives and Warfare Chairs, as well as the Military Associate Deans of all four NPS graduate schools (international studies, operational and information sciences, engineering and applied sciences, and defense management). NWSI provides operational and functional expertise as well as access to all areas of study and research, every faculty member and the entire student body. NWSI also partners with outside entities, including the Naval War College, that complement their educational and research activities.[10]

Academics

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Departments

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NPS offers graduate programs through thirteen departments:[15]

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Computer Science
  • Defense Analysis
  • Department of Defense Management
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Information Sciences
  • Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • Meteorology
  • National Security Affairs
  • Oceanography
  • Operations Research
  • Physics
  • Systems Engineering

Groups

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Academic Groups at NPS are interdisciplinary and responsible for one or more curricula.[15]

  • Applied Cryptologic Engineering
  • Crowd Dynamics Modeling
  • Cyber Academic Group
  • Data Science and Analytics Academic
  • Group
  • Energy Academic Group
  • Space Systems Academic Group
  • Undersea Warfare Academic Group

Faculty

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Most NPS faculty are civilians.

  • Doctorates: 298
  • Masters: 166
  • Tenure-Track: 172
  • Non-Tenure: 210
  • Instructional / Research Support: 132[16]

Students

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NPS students are mostly active-duty officers from all branches of the U.S. military, although U.S. government civilians and officers from approximately 30 partner countries can also matriculate under a variety of programs.

Notable alumni

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Notable faculty

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2016 Endowment Market Value and Change* in Endowment Market Value from FY2015 to FY2016" (PDF). NACUBO.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 February 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
  2. ^ Staff Report (10 October 2018). "College of DuPage president who took over after predecessor's firing is leaving for Navy job". Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Mission - Naval Postgraduate School". nps.edu. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
  4. ^ "About - Naval Postgraduate School". nps.edu. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  5. ^ Research Associateship Programs. Sites.nationalacademies.org. Retrieved on 17 October 2011.
  6. ^ "NPS Presidents & Provosts - Dudley Knox Library - Naval Postgraduate School". library.nps.edu. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  7. ^ "SSAG - Space Systems Academic Group - Naval Postgraduate School". nps.edu. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  8. ^ "Center for Information Systems Security Studies and Research". cisr.nps.edu. Monterey, CA, USA: Naval Postgraduate School. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  9. ^ Center for Homeland Defense & Security. Chds.us. Retrieved on 17 October 2011.
  10. ^ a b "NPS Launches Naval Warfare Studies Institute to Expedite Fleet Warfighting Solutions". nps.edu. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  11. ^ "Naval Postgraduate School Funds New Research in Robotics, Autonomous Systems". United States Navy. Archived from the original on 4 December 2024. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
  12. ^ "VADM Dan T. Oliver, USN, Ret. - Members". spectrumgrp.com.
  13. ^ a b c "SECNAV Relieves Top Leaders of Naval Postgraduate School". United States Navy. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
  14. ^ "NPS Announces Graduate School of Defense Management". nps.edu. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  15. ^ a b "Departments - Naval Postgraduate School". nps.edu. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
  16. ^ "Fact Sheet - Naval Postgraduate School". nps.edu. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
  17. ^ a b "Faculty | Guillermo E. Barrera". Naval Postgraduate School. Archived from the original on 11 August 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  18. ^ "Obituaries: RADM Stanley Thomas Counts, USN (Ret) '49". The USNA Alumni Association San Diego Chapter Newsletter (May). The USNA Alumni Association: 2&3. 2015.
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