Since its inception in 1881 as the School of Application for Infantry and Cavalry at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the Command and General Staff College (CGSC) has evolved to meet the educational and operational needs of the United States Army. Today, CGSC is more than an Army school – we are a Joint, interagency, intergovernmental and multinational College, accredited by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to provide Joint Professional Military Education, and by the Higher Learning Commission to grant a Master of Military Art and Science degree to qualified graduates in three of CGSC's fourteen academic programs. The Command and General Staff College is a subordinate organization of Army University.