unitid 164155 · Annapolis, MD · public 4-year · suburb (large)
United States Naval Academy
Service academy in Annapolis, Maryland, US
- founded
- 1845
- enrollment 2023
- 4,644
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- usna.edu/homepage.php
- motto
- “Ex scientia tridens”
The United States Naval Academy is a federal service academy adjacent to Annapolis, Maryland. It was established on 10 October 1845 during the tenure of George Bancroft as Secretary of the Navy. The Naval Academy is the second oldest of the five U.S. service academies and it educates midshipmen for service in the officer corps of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. It is part of the Naval University System. The 338-acre (137 ha) campus is located on the former grounds of Fort Severn at the confluence of the Severn River and Chesapeake Bay in Anne Arundel County, 33 miles (53 km) east of Washington, D.C., and 26 miles (42 km) southeast of Baltimore. The entire campus, known colloquially as the Yard, is a National Historic Landmark and home to many historic sites, buildings, and monuments. It replaced Philadelphia Naval Asylum in Philadelphia that had served as the first United States Naval Academy from 1838 to 1845, at which time the Naval Academy formed in Annapolis. wikipedia rev 1361022945 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
9%
0th pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
4,474
47th pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
not reported
completion
93%
finish within 150% time
100th pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
not reported
avg net price / yr
not reported
median earnings, 10 yr
not reported
median grad debt
not reported
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Net price by family income
not reported for any income bracket
Who enrolls, by family income
family income mix not reported
- Median family income
- not reported
- First-generation students
- not reported
- In-state tuition & fees
- $0
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry
not reported
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics. | 148 | — | — |
| Political Science and Government. | 113 | — | — |
| Operations Research. | 76 | — | — |
| Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering. | 71 | — | — |
| English Language and Literature, General. | 68 | — | — |
| Intelligence, Command Control and Information Operations. | 52 | — | — |
| Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering. | 50 | — | — |
| Mechanical Engineering. | 45 | — | — |
| Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences. | 44 | — | — |
| Computer Science. | 40 | — | — |
| History. | 40 | — | — |
| Chemistry. | 37 | — | — |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
no years reported
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
no years reported
Undergraduates
wikidata · 2,783 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsmilitary officer (1,227) · basketball player (658) · naval officer (210) · military personnel (185) · politician (148) · submariner (75) · aircraft pilot (72) · engineer (67)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Albert Abraham Michelson Physics 1907
- Jimmy Carter Peace 2002
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Jimmy Carter
199 wikis · Public domain
John McCain
132 wikis · Public domain
Albert Abraham Michelson
106 wikis · Public domain
Robert A. Heinlein
100 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Alan Shepard
71 wikis · Public domain
Sunita Williams
69 wikis · Public domain
Chester W. Nimitz
67 wikis · Public domain
Jim Lovell
65 wikis · Public domain
Richard E. Byrd
57 wikis · Public domain
Bill Anders
55 wikis · Public domain
Edgar Mitchell
52 wikis · Public domain
James Irwin
48 wikis · Public domain
Scott Carpenter
48 wikis · Public domain
Wally Schirra
47 wikis · Public domain
David Robinson
47 wikis · Public domain
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1361022945), CC BY-SA 4.0.