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Founded in 1951, Naval Postgraduate School is a graduate research university located in Monterey, CA. The university houses four postgraduate schools: Defense Management, Engineering and Applied Sciences, International and Defense Studies, and Operational and Informational Sciences. The school also functions as a satellite office of the United States Naval War College, College of Distance Education (CDE). Naval Postgraduate School offers masters and doctorate degrees, along with resident and distance learning certificates in a variety of fields.NPS is an equal opportunity school.In 2020, NPS was nationally ranked in the top 20 percent for graduate schools in Public Affairs, and #1 nationally for Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
"The Naval Postgraduate School provides defense-focused graduate education, including classified studies and interdisciplinary research, to advance the operational effectiveness, technological leadership and warfighting advantage of the Naval service."
NPS is a graduate university, as well as a research center, hosting a variety of research facilities, utilized by both students and faculty:
• Common Operational Research Environment (CORE) Program
• Cryptologic Research Laboratory (CRL)
• Directed Energy Simulation Laboratory
• Interactive Digital Environment Analysis (IDEA) Laboratory
• Ocean Acoustic Observatory
• Radar/Electronic Warfare Laboratory
• Rocket and Combustion Laboratory
• Secure Computer Network Research Laboratory
• Small Satellite Development Laboratory
• Secure Space Systems Research
• Spacecraft Research and Design Center
• Systems Technology Battle Laboratory
• TurboPropulsion Laboratory
The Naval Postgraduate School was established in 1909 in Annapolis, MD. In 1945, NPS became a fully-accredited, degree-granting graduate institution. Two years later, Congress authorized the purchase of the Hotel Del Monte and 627 acres of surrounding land for use as an independent campus for the school. In December 1951, NPS moved to its current campus in Monterey, CA.
