Nonresident Education Opportunities (Distributed Learning)

Office of Continuous Learning

NPS employs Distributed Learning (DL) technologies as an innovative tool for broadening the professional and intellectual horizons of students, preparing them to assume leadership roles in tomorrow's defense environment.

OCL Website: www.nps.edu/DL

NPS offers high quality and flexible delivery of degree and non-degree programs that are uniquely relevant to defense needs. These programs directly link to competencies which allow for the building of an appropriate foundation of naval leaders. Robust return on investment is in the form of knowledge, skills and abilities critical to naval combat effectiveness.

NPS' DL strategy provides the following comprehensive options to:

• Increase flexibility and opportunity for graduate education
• Take the education to the student through distributed learning and satellite locations in Fleet Concentration Areas
• Use innovative learning technology to deliver education
• Pursue "two-for-one" – graduate degree and JPME phase I credit in a single program
• Enhance ability to fill subspecialty-coded billets
• Support continuous educational development of Navy Officers

The following Certificate Programs can be obtained entirely online:

• Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW)
• Fundamentals in Information Systems Technology (eFIST)
• Information Systems and Operations (ISO)
• Information Systems Technology (IST)
• Systems Analysis (SA)
• Systems Engineering (SE)
• Space Systems (SS)

The following Degree Program can be obtained entirely online:

• Masters of Computing Technology (MCT)

The following Degree Program can be obtained synchronously:

• Systems Engineering Management--Product Development Leadership Education for the 21st Century (SEM-PD21) Degree Program

The following Degree Programs are obtained via a combination of Video Tele-Education and online classes:

• Master of Systems Analysis (MSA) Degree Program
• Master of Science in Systems Engineering (MSSE) Degree Program
• Master of Science in Space Systems Operations (MSSSO) Degree Program
• Master of Science in Electronic Systems Engineering (Electronic Warfare (MSESE-EW) Degree Program

As a part of its overall DL strategy, NPS, through the Office of Continuous Learning (OCL), has established outreach offices in Fleet Concentration Areas in support of these DL methods, broadening its outreach and ability to disseminate graduate educational opportunities. The primary functions of the Outreach offices include:

• Conducting demographic educational Market Analysis
• Shaping Educational Programs to meet local student needs
• Marketing NPS on-campus and DL programs
• Liaison with local DoD commands
• Building relationships with other DoD agencies to include the intelligence, acquisition and JPME communities
• Counseling officers on educational and promotion opportunities
• Supporting visiting NPS faculty
• Identifying local Distributed Learning Support facilities
• Working with NPS departments to experiment with new technology methods to improve DL delivery
• Creating joint programs with local universities

Air Force Institute of Technology—Distance Learning

The Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), located at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the Air Force's graduate school of engineering and management as well as its institution for technical professional continuing education. AFIT is developing distance learning programs for government students who cannot enroll in one of AFIT's resident programs. Detailed information about AFIT's nonresident programs can be found at http://www.afit.edu/en/dl/

The Naval Postgraduate School maintains a Strategic Alliance with the Air Force Institute of Technology. A memorandum of agreement between the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of the Air Force forms this alliance to ensure the two institutions continuously work together to meet the educational needs of the Armed Forces of the United States. NPS and AFIT will continue to reflect the heritage and character of their respective services, meeting Joint and service-unique needs, minimizing unnecessary redundancy, maintaining quality and realizing efficiencies and economies of scale.

NPS generally allows a maximum of 12 graduate-level, quarter-credits to be transferred for purposes of earning a graduate degree. However, an additional 12 quarter-credits may be transferred from the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) in Dayton, Ohio. This is in addition to the normal transfer allowed (12), bringing the total to a maximum of 24 quarter-credits transferable from AFIT to NPS. Permission to transfer a specific course to serve as a substitute for a degree requirement will be determined by the Department Chairman or equivalent person responsible for nominating candidates for degrees at NPS and must be pre-approved in a coherent plan of study for the student. Regardless of transfer credits allowed, all NPS master's degrees still require at least 20 quarter-credits be earned directly from NPS.

Academic Calendars

Academic Calendar AY 2008

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Spring Quarter

Summer Quarter

11/9/06

Academic Calendar AY 2009

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Summer Quarter

12/04/2006

Academic Calendar AY 2010

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12/04/2006