United States Military Academy is a public institution that was founded in 1802. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 4,592, its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 16,080 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. United States Military Academy's ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is National Liberal Arts Colleges, 17.

The United States Military Academy is located in West Point, N.Y., approximately 50 miles north of New York City on the Hudson River. The school, also known as USMA, West Point and Army, is the oldest of the country’s five federal service academies. Students, referred to as cadets, are officers in training, and their tuitions are funded by the U.S. Army in return for an active-service duty obligation.