United States military academies
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The United States military academies, sometimes known as the United States service academies, are federal academies for the education and training of commissioned officers for the United States armed forces. There are five or six U.S. military academies, depending on how strictly one defines the term:
- United States Military Academy, also known as "West Point" and "Army", founded 1802
- United States Naval Academy, also known as "Annapolis" and "Navy", founded 1845
- United States Coast Guard Academy, founded 1876
- United States Merchant Marine Academy, also known as "Kings Point", founded 1942
- United States Air Force Academy, also known as "Air Force" (and infrequently as "Colorado Springs", and frequently as "The Academy"), founded 1954
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, founded 1972
There is no dispute as to the status of the first five listed. The status of the sixth, the Uniformed Services University (USU), is more complex. USU specializes in training health care professionals for the U.S. military. However, the only program at USU that truly functions as a military academy is its F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine. While it accepts military and civilian students, its graduates have a 7-year service commitment upon graduation. The graduate nursing program at USU is open only to commissioned officers. USU also operates graduate programs in biomedical research and public health; some of its specialties are only open to military personnel, while others are open to civilians as well, with no postgraduate service requirement.
The term service academies can be used to refer to all of the academies, apart from USU, collectively; however, in popular use, it is more often reserved for the three academies that play NCAA Division I-A football: Army, Navy, and Air Force.
See also
- List of defunct United States military academies
- Staff Colleges
- State-supported military universities:
- Privately-chartered military universities:
- Major civilian universities with an established military cadet corps:
- State-supported maritime colleges and universities:
- Students at these academies graduate with appropriate licenses from the U.S. Coast Guard and/or U.S. Merchant Marine, and may become commissioned reserve officers with the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, or the U.S. Marine Corps
- California Maritime Academy
- Great Lakes Maritime Academy, a division of Northwestern Michigan College
- State University of New York Maritime College
- Maine Maritime Academy
- Massachusetts Maritime Academy
- Texas Maritime Academy, a division of Texas A&M University at Galveston
- Students at these academies graduate with appropriate licenses from the U.S. Coast Guard and/or U.S. Merchant Marine, and may become commissioned reserve officers with the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, or the U.S. Marine Corps
- Reserve Officer Training Programs