The
United States Naval Academy (also known as
USNA,
Annapolis, or simply
Navy) is a four-year
coeducational federal service academy located in
Annapolis,
Maryland, United States. Established in 1845 under
Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft, it is the second-oldest of the United States' five
service academies, and educates officers for commissioning primarily into the
United States Navy and
United States Marine Corps. The campus is located on the former grounds of
Fort Severn at the confluence of the
Severn River and
Chesapeake Bay in
Anne Arundel County, east of Washington, D.C. and southeast of
Baltimore. The entire campus is a
National Historic Landmark and home to many historic sites, buildings, and monuments. It replaced
Philadelphia Naval Asylum, in
Philadelphia, that served as the first United States Naval Academy from 1838 to 1845 when the Naval Academy formed in Annapolis.