院校简介
美国陆军军官学院（英语：The United States Military Academy at West Point），常被称为西点军校，是美国第一所军事学校，也是美国陆军的军官培养机构，位于纽约州西点（哈德逊河西岸），距离纽约市约80公里。学校占地1万6千英亩（约647500公亩）。
从该军事学校毕业的学生将获得理学学士，毕业后的军衔是陆军少尉。毕业生必须在军队中至少服役5年和退伍后至少3年的后备役。
军事学院的美式足球队历史上一直被称为“哈德逊黑骑士”（The Black Knights of the Hudson），不过现在已经被缩写为“黑骑士”（Black Knights）。美国的媒体有时也将西点军校的美式足球队称为“陆军”（Army），这种叫法也已经成为正式的称谓。
西点军校的校训是“责任、荣誉、国家”，该校是美国历史最悠久的军事学院之一。它曾与英国桑赫斯特皇家军事学院、俄罗斯伏龙芝军事学院以及法国圣西尔军事专科学校并称世界“四大军校”。西点军校是美国爱国者联盟盟校之一。除西点军校之外，该联盟由包括麻省理工学院（MIT）、理海大学（Lehigh University）、乔治敦大学（Georgetown University）和美国海军学院（USNA）在内的其他12个精英学府组成。这些学府的共同特点是规模小和高度精英化。
西点军校收入国家史迹名录，也是美国国家历史名胜。
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校园设施
校园位置
suburban
地理位置
The United States Military Academy is located at West Point, New York and overlooks the Hudson River. Because of its prime positioning at an S-curve in the river, the place was a vital position during the Revolutionary War for the Continental Army to control river traffic. Today the town is quaint, with around 7,000 inhabitants, and most of them affiliated with or posted at West Point. The town is only 50 miles from New York City, so when cadets have a free weekend night they can cross the river and hop the Amtrak to hit up the big city.
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校园面积
16080 acres acres
校园
The campus covers 16,000 acres in West Point and is one of the biggest in the world. School grounds contain the usual academic buildings and housing (or barracks) within a condensed fortified design so getting between classes is easy. There are four chapels on campus, so students of almost every denomination can attend the religious service of their choice. With the expanse land around the fort, students also have access to beyond-the-norm campus amenities like an artillery range and a ski slope.
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是否强制住宿
Students required to live on campus through senior year
宿舍类型
Coed dorms
宿舍条件
Cadets live in student housing, or “barracks,” all four years. (Sorry upperclassmen, no swanky on-campus apartments for you.) The rooms are all doubles or triples and cadets live with other members of their class in a cadet company comprised of 110 students from all four classes. Oh, and before you rush out to become a West Point plebe, have your mom teach you how to make a bed. It’s a daily requirement.
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体育培养
West Point’s sports teams are referred to as “Army” in the media and the official mascot is the Black Knight. In most sports, Army is a member of the Division I Patriot League, though the men’s hockey team competes with Atlantic Hockey. All cadets are required to attend home football games and stand for the duration of the game. West Point’s most heated game of the football season is against Navy, their biggest rival. USMA encourages athletic and competitive behavior by requiring all cadets to take part in a varsity, club, or intramural team.
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犯罪率（犯罪数量/学生数量）
3/ 939
