Naval Postgraduate School - Academic Structure

Academic Structure

NPS offers graduate programs through four graduate schools and 12 departments. The different schools and departments offer various PhD and M.S. level degrees:

• Graduate School of Business & Public Policy includes the departments:

1. Acquisition Management
2. Enterprise Management
3. Financial Management
4. Management
5. Manpower and Economics
6. Operations and Logistics Management

• Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, includes the units:

1. Applied Mathematics Department
2. Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
3. Mechanical and Astronautical Engineering Department
4. Meteorology Department
5. Oceanography Department
6. Physics Department
7. Systems Engineering Department
8. Space Systems Academic Group
9. Navigation Systems Engineering Institute
10. Under Sea Warfare Systems Academic Committee
11. Remote Sensing Center
12. Spacecraft Robotics Laboratory

• Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences includes the departments:

1. Computer Sciences
2. Defense Analysis
3. Information Sciences
4. Operations Research

• School of International Graduate Studies with multiple centers:

1. National Security Affairs Academic Program
2. Defense Resource Management Institute
3. Center on Contemporary Conflict
4. Center for Civil Military Relations
5. Center for Stabilization Reconstruction and Studies
6. Leadership Development and Education for Sustained Peace
7. International Defense and Acquisition Resource Management
8. Center for Homeland Defense and Security
9. International Graduate Program Office
10. Program for Culture & Conflict Studies
11. Center for Homeland Defense & Security

NPS also operates an active distributed learning program, and executive education programs for US warfighters and civilian government employees.