Graduate School Opportunities
A multitude of scholarship programs to make it possible for USNA students to seek graduate education or professional education immediately following their graduation and commissioning but prior to their deployment in the fleet. These programs include:
- Voluntary Graduate Education Program (VGEP)
- Immediate Graduate Education Program (IGEP)
- Navy Burke Scholar Program
- Bowman Scholar Program (for those selecting into the Nuclear Navy including submarine or surface warfare)
- Shoemaker ("Aviator Stash") Scholar Program (for those selecting into Naval Aviation)
- Navy Medical/Dental Corps Billets
These programs are independent of the mathematics department. The details, eligibility, additional service commitment (if any) and competitiveness for each program vary. For more detailed information, please see:
Majors from the mathematics department from USNA have been successful in completing graduate or professional programs immediately after graduation. Recent examples include:
- M.S. studies in Financial Mathematics at the University of Chicago
- M.S. studies in Public Health at the Univeristy of Oxford
- M.S. studies in Operations Research at the Naval Postgraduate School
- M.S. studies in Operations Research at Johns Hopkins University
- M.B.A. studies in Data Science/Business Analytics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- M.S. studies in Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
- M.D. studies at Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University
- M.D. studies at Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
- M.D. studies at F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University
