FACT SHEET
“ The Naval Postgraduate School is the anchor for our advanced education in the
Navy, and in many ways, the military. The exchange of ideas, the exposure to a
broader perspective, to technology and research is absolutely vital for our young
officers, both ours as well as the international officers who are here.”
ADM. MICHAEL MULLEN, USN (Ret.)
Operations Research, ,85
Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
MISSION
G r ad uat ion Rat e
NPS provides high-quality, relevant and unique advanced
education and research programs that increase the combat
effectiveness of the Naval Services, other Armed Forces of the
U.S. and our partners, to enhance our national security.
V ision
As a naval/defense-oriented research university, the Naval
Postgraduate School will operate as a geographically
distributed educational system that provides a broad range of
high-quality graduate education in support of national and
international security.
Average Graduation Rate (Residential).................................... 91%
Average Time to Degree................................................. 20 months
D e g r ees Awa r ded 2 011
Bachelor.............................................................................................2
Master........................................................................................ 1,179
Engineer.......................................................................................... 15
Ph.D................................................................................................ 14
Fac u lt y
( i n c l u d es a d m i n i st r at i v e )
Tenure Track and Tenured......................................................... 269
(99% with Ph.D.)
Non-Tenure Track....................................................................... 468
2 0 11 E n ro l l men t s
D e g r ee S t u den t AV E R AG E
Military Faculty............................................................................ 8%
Total students enrolled........................................................ 2,568
S taff
Non-Resident.......................................................................... 36%
Residen t D e g r ee S t u den t AV E R AG E
OTHER 1%
SIGS 14%
GSBPP 24%
GS and WG staff members......................................................... 596
F inan c es
Operating budget (FY11)........................................ $630.5 million
(including military salary)
Direct government authorization............................. $93.8 million
(without military salary)
Reimbursable funding............................................. $357.4 million
GSOIS 27%
S P O N S O R E D P RO GR A M S E X P E N D I TUR E S
EDUCATION 10%
GSEAS 34%
Residen t de g r ee s t u den t ave r ag e
b y se rvi c e
USA........................................................................................... 183
USN/R...................................................................................... 732
USAF........................................................................................ 145
USMC....................................................................................... 166
Civilian..................................................................................... 175
International............................................................................ 236
Other Services........................................................................... 15
RESEARCH 52%
SERVICE 37%
T u i t ion / F ees
All NPS students are fully sponsored, funded and sent by a DOD
Command, U.S. military service or an allied country or government.
Information accurate as of January 2012
“ NPS is part of our heritage and provides the Navy with the opportunity to
influence what the Navy gets out of a graduate education. This is distinctive,
important and strategic for our future. ”
ADM. JONATHAN GREENERT
Chief of Naval Operations
Ac c r edi tat ion
• W
estern Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC)
• Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
(ABET)
• The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of
Business (AACSB)
• National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and
Administration (NASPAA)
Unive r si t y O r g ani z at ion
Four Graduate Schools:
• The Graduate School of Business and Public Policy
(GSBPP)
• The Graduate School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences (GSEAS)
• The Graduate School of Operational and Information
Sciences (GSOIS)
• The School of International Graduate Studies (SIGS)
Unive r si t y Leade r s h ip
President.........................Vice Adm. Daniel T. Oliver, USN (Ret.)
Executive Vice President and Provost............ Dr. Leonard Ferrari
Chief of Staff...................................................Col. Zoë Hale, USAF
Interim Dean of Students........Cmdr. Matthew Vandersluis, USN
D u d l e y K nox Li b r a ry
The Dudley Knox Library offers a wide array of content and
services that support the instructional and research needs of
NPS resident and distance faculty, students and staff, as well as
NPS alumni, in a 24/7 environment.
Li b r a ry Reso u r c es 2 0 1 1
Annual Content Expenditures..................................$2,315,796
(39% of DKL budget)*
Local E-Resources............................................................ 176,067
DKL Alumni Access Users.................................................. 1,851
(20.3% international)
*FY 2011 Library budget includes Faculty labor. Prior year Faculty funding
was managed by the Provost's office.
Learn more at www.nps.edu/library
I nfo r mat ion Te c h no l o g y and
Communic ations Services (ITACS)
The areas of coverage include: Network operations, unified
communications, academic computing, distributed learning,
administrative computing, high performance computing and
visualization, helpdesk services, classified computing, web and
application development and maintenance.
Use r Ac c o u n t s
Faculty..................................................................................... 14%
Staff.......................................................................................... 18%
Resident Students................................................................... 31%
Distance Learning Students.................................................. 21%
Other........................................................................................ 16%
Total.................................................................................6,561
E d u c at ion Te c h no l o g y
Class hours recorded and delivered through webconferencing system............................................................ 6,255
Courses hosted on the Learning Management System... 5,935
We b - Based S y n c h rono u s
Co l l a b o r at ion S essions :
7,217 (up 34% from 2010)
Hi g h P e r fo r man c e Comp u t in g
• Theoretical Peak Performance of 21.67 trillion operations
per second
• 300 TB disk storage with peak read/write speed of 5
gigabytes per second
For more information about the
Naval Postgraduate School Please visit
us at www.nps.edu or contact
Office of Institutional Advancement
831.656.1068 / pao@nps.edu
1 University Circle
Monterey, California 93943