The United States Coast Guard Academy 
located in New London, Connecticut
As the smallest of the five U.S. service academies, the Coast Guard Academy offers the prestigious higher education, rigorous professional development and honor and tradition of a military academy, but with a more personalized approach.
The Coast Guard Academy offers an integrated life experience which emphasizes leadership, character, academics and physical fitness in order to graduate the very best Coast Guard officers. Graduates go directly to positions of leadership in U.S. Coast Guard, one of the best and most admired organizations in the world. The Academy also features an impressive teacher-student ratio and picturesque waterfront campus that instills a traditional small college feel.
Cadets devote themselves to an honor concept and graduate to work at sea, on land, in the air, and even in space, in meaningful careers of selfless service to others.