What is the United States Naval Academy?
Q: What is the United States Naval Academy?
A: The United States Naval Academy is a four-year coeducational federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland. It educates officers mostly to join the United States Navy and Marine Corps.
Q: Who founded the USNA?
A: Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft began it in 1845.
Q: Where is the USNA located?
A: The 338-acre campus is on the former grounds of Fort Severn where the Severn River flows into Chesapeake Bay. It is about 33 miles east of Washington, D.C. and 26 miles southeast of Baltimore, Maryland.
Q: What type of degree do Midshipmen receive upon graduation?
A: Graduates are usually commissioned as Ensigns in the Navy or Second Lieutenants in the Marine Corps, and occasionally as officers in other branches such as Air Force, Army, and Coast Guard. They also receive a bachelor of science degree from their academic program at USNA.
Q: How many students enter each summer for orientation?
A: About 1,300 "plebes" enter each summer for orientation which includes high school students as well as enlisted Sailors and Marines.
Q: How many Midshipmen graduate after 4 years?
A: Only about 1,000 Midshipmen graduate after four years at USNA.
Q: When did African Americans become able to attend USNA?
A: On 3 June 1949 Wesley A Brown became the first African American to graduate from USNA
