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 Dean of Students............................... Capt. Alan Poindexter, 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