The Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, United States is a graduate school operated by the United States Navy. It grants graduate degrees to its students, who for the most part are officers in the United States Navy. Some students who are officers in the other military services of the United States also attend, along with a few officers from foreign military services. While most of the degrees it grants are master's degrees, a few Ph.D. degrees also are awarded each year. Its location was once a resort; some of its buildings and its cactus garden date from that time.

History

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

Within three years, Meyer agreed to a proposal to change the school. On October 31, 1912, he signed Navy General Order No. 233, which renamed the school the Postgraduate Department of the Naval Academy. The order established courses of study in ordnance and gunnery, electrical engineering, radio telegraphy, naval construction , and civil engineering as well as continuing the original program in marine engineering.

During World War II, Fleet Admiral Ernest King, chief of naval operations and commander-in-chief of both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets, 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 post-war review team, which had examined 25 sites nationwide, had recommended the old Hotel Del Monte in Monterey as a new home for the Postgraduate School. Negotiations with the Del Monte Properties Company led to the purchase of the hotel and 627 acres of surrounding land for $2.13 million.

In December 1951 the Postgraduate School moved across the nation, establishing its current campus in Monterey.

Today, the school has over 40 programs of study ranging from the traditional engineering and physical sciences to space science programs.

See also

America's Army: Work of the Naval Postgraduate School.

External links

Naval Postgraduate School