2026 Winter Graduation

2026 Winter Graduation Ceremony

1000, Friday, March 27, 2026
King Hall Auditorium

The 2026 Winter quarter class includes 181 graduates, earning a total of 183 degrees. This class consists of 72 U.S. Navy; 26 U.S. Marine Corps; 17 U.S. Army; 6 U.S. Air Force; 1 U.S. Space Force; 25 civilians; and 34 international graduates representing 22 countries. Of the graduates, 4 earned doctoral degrees, 136 earned master’s degrees, 59 are distance learning students, and 60 have also completed their Joint Professional Military Education.

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The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) celebrated its 2026 Winter Quarter graduates during a commencement ceremony, March 27, 2026, in King Hall auditorium. Commencement speaker Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Jeffery Czerewko rallied the latest class, with advanced degrees in defense-focused disciplines awarded to 181 new NPS graduates.

“NPS gave me two things that I needed to do this well,” Andrews said. “The first was the technical toolkit … statistics, economics, data analysis, visualizations. Those equipped me to look at this problem and then actually quantify it, measure it, and observe the outcomes.”

“The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) gave me the opportunity to expand into new academic domains, such as machine learning, while leveraging the school's experience in military manpower,” said upcoming graduate Royal Australian Air Force Squadron Leader Darby Nelson.

Years of student/faculty research at the Naval Postgraduate School have demonstrated the advantages of self-contained microgrids on energy resilience, but ensuring their operational continuity is essential. Lt. Roberto A. Pacheco, an electrical engineering student set to graduate this Friday, explored this issue in his NPS thesis, developing and testing energy management algorithms for networked microgrids to share energy and remain operational in varied potential fault events.