scope:

Scope and Applicability.

Four to six quotas will be available, annually, for officers to enter the program each June. Participants will be selected from the oceanography restricted line community (1800) and any unrestricted line (URL) community based on projected 6402P (oceanography operational sciences) subspecialty requirements within each community. Upon completion of the program, URL officers will retain their URL warfare specialty designation. All graduates will be awarded the 6402P subspecialty code. Newly commissioned officers from the United States Naval Academy (USNA) and the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) may also compete, subject to the needs and requirements of the Navy. Specific eligibility will be detailed in the MIT/WHOI naval administrative message (NAVADMIN) issued each year. All applicants for this program must submit a formal MITWHOI Joint Program entrance application and be accepted by the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in the same manner as prescribed for other students. Participation is contingent upon academic acceptance by the MIT/WHOI Joint Program.

Purpose. To announce the policy and procedural guidance governing selection and assignment of naval officers for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Joint Master's Degree in Oceanography Program. Key changes in this revision include establishing the number of annual quotas available, broadening the scope of the program to include officers from all unrestricted line communities, and extending eligibility to officers below the rank of lieutenant.