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Former name | School of Marine Engineering |
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| Motto | Praestantia Per Scientiam |
Motto in English | Excellence through Knowledge |
| Type | Graduate school |
| Established | 1909 |
Parent institution | Naval University System |
| Endowment | $5.08 million (2016)[1] |
| Provost | James H. Newman |
| President | Ann E. Rondeau[2] |
| Students | 2,586 |
| Location | ,, U.S. 36°35′53″N121°52′30″W / 36.598°N 121.875°W /36.598; -121.875 |
| Campus | 627 acres (254 ha) |
| Website | nps.edu |
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Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is a Navalcommand with agraduate university mission, operated by theUnited States Navy and located inMonterey, 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]
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On 9 June 1909,Secretary of the NavyGeorge von L. Meyer signed General Order No. 27, establishing a school ofmarine engineering atAnnapolis, Maryland.
On 31 October 1912, Meyer signed Navy General Order No. 233, which renamed the school thePostgraduate Department of the United States Naval Academy. The order established courses of study in ordnance and gunnery,electrical engineering,radio telegraphy,naval construction, andcivil engineering and continued the program in marine engineering.
DuringWorld War II,Fleet AdmiralErnest King,Chief of Naval Operations and Commander-in-ChiefUnited 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 fullyaccredited, 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 oldHotel Del Monte inMonterey, 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 theElectronics 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.
FormerGuantanamo Bay Naval Base commander andWorld War II andKorean War veteran,RADMEdward 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 inordnance 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 theCenter 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 AdmiralDaniel T. Oliver (retired)[12] and Provost Dr. Leonard Ferrari were relieved of duty bySecretary of the NavyRay Mabus.[13] A Navy press release cited findings from aNaval 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 theNaval War College, that complement their educational and research activities.[10]
NPS offers graduate programs through thirteen departments:[15]
Academic Groups at NPS are interdisciplinary and responsible for one or more curricula.[15]
NPS faculty consists of civilian professors, Permanent Military Professors, and active-duty military officers serving as instructors and researchers.
NPS students are mostly active-duty officers from all branches of theU.S. military, although active-duty enlisted,U.S. government civilians and officers from approximately 50 partner countries can also matriculate under a variety of programs.
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