United States Naval Academy

United States Naval Academy is a accessible academy that was founded in 1845. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 4,511, its ambience is urban, and the campus admeasurement is 338 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. United States Naval Academy's baronial in the 2016 copy of Best Colleges is National Liberal Arts Colleges, 9. Its in-state charge and fees are $0 (2014-15); out-of-state charge and fees are $0 (2014-15).

The United States Naval Academy is amid in Annapolis, Maryland, area the Severn River meets the Chesapeake Bay, about 33 afar east of Washington. It is the additional oldest of the 5 federal account academies. Students, accepted as midshipmen, are admiral in training and their charge is absolutely adjourned by the U.S. Navy in acknowledgment for active-duty account afterwards graduation. The Naval Academy has NCAA Division I intercollegiate varsity sports and competes in the Patriot League and the American Athletic Conference. Navy is accepted for its abiding football animosity with the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Midshipmen have to accommodated assertive concrete apprenticeship requirements during all four years in adjustment to graduate. The academy offers added than 70 extracurricular activities for midshipmen, from the agitation aggregation to the scuba club. All midshipmen reside in Bancroft Hall, a huge billet complex, and accept a account stipend.

Graduates from the United States Naval Academy acquire a Bachelor of Science amount and go on to serve in the U.S. Navy or Marine Corps. Applicants have to both administer anon to the academy and accept a nomination, usually from a affiliate of Congress. A attitude on campus is the Ring Dance, if cheap midshipmen accept their chic rings. Notable alumni cover above U.S. President Jimmy Carter; astronaut Alan Shepard, the aboriginal American in space; U.S. Sen. John McCain; NASA Administrator Charles Bolden; and above presidential applicant Ross Perot.