Students

The National Intelligence College supports students from across the Intelligence Community through rigorous academic programs, research resources, and mission-focused education.

Student Overview

During Academic Year 2025–2026, the former National Intelligence University (NIU) enrolled students from government agencies across the Intelligence Community. The United States Army was the most represented organization in the bachelor’s completion program, while the United States Air Force led enrollment in the master’s degree program—underscoring NIU’s strong and enduring partnerships with the military services.

Additionally, the Defense Intelligence Agency had the highest number of certificate recipients, reinforcing the university’s longstanding commitment to delivering world-class education and research in support of the Intelligence Community.

Under the new National Intelligence College, this commitment will continue, with a sustained focus on enrolling students from across the Intelligence Community to strengthen collaboration, integration, and mission impact.

NIC Library

The National Intelligence College Library plays a key role in enhancing the competence of intelligence professionals by providing research assistance, instruction, and comprehensive academic collections and tools that support the curriculum of the University and the analytic needs of the Intelligence Community.

Access to the Library and its resources is limited to NIC and the broader NDU.

Library Services – Bethesda

(301) 243-2100 NIU_Library@dodiis.mil
Discovery Tools
The library catalog is an electronic bibliographic database containing a record for each item the library owns and displays the item’s location and availability.
Journal Finder
Journal Finder helps you discover which of our databases, if any, may contain full text articles by searching using the title of the publication in which they appear.
EBSCO Discovery Service
EBSCO Discovery Service is a tool that allows you to discover resources by searching across many of the library’s databases in one place.
Books, E-books, Audiobooks
The library catalog is an electronic bibliographic database containing a record for each item the library owns and displays the item’s location and availability.
Ebook Central
E-books from major academic publishers and professional publishers. Search and read more than 200,000 e-books using Ebook Central.
Praeger Security International
An extensive collection of more than 850 e-books from Praeger publishing covering terrorism, homeland security, intelligence, asymmetric warfare, food security, and related topics.
OverDrive
Stream audio books over your desktop computer. You can also use the Libby app from OverDrive to listen to audio books.

Do not bring personal electronic devices into the facility.
Library Databases
Gale
Academic journals, news, magazines. Includes Gale OneFile: Military and Intelligence, which covers all aspects of past and present military affairs. Updated daily.
HeinOnline
HeinOnline has the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), U.S. Code, U.S. Congressional Serial Set, U.S. Statutes at Large, World Constitutions Illustrated, plus extensive law review journals and more.
JSTOR
Nearly all content is from scholarly journals. Excellent resource for demographics, religion, culture studies, and history. Some content reaches back to the early 1800s.
ProQuest
Extensive, multi-disciplinary database, which provides access to war college publications, global dissertations, declassified documents, as well as academic journals, news, magazines.
News
Washington Post via Gale
Access the Washington Post print content through our Gale subscription.

**Please note that Gale’s content is typically a day behind.
New York Times (online) via Gale
Access the New York Times online content through our Gale subscription.

**Please note that Gale’s content is typically a day or more behind.
New York Times (print) via Gale
Access the New York Times print content through our Gale subscription.

**Please note that Gale’s content is typically a day behind.
Additional Resources
Detailed reports created by dedicated subject specialists at the Congressional Research Service within the Library of Congress.
DTIC is a DoD web portal to extensive, unclassified military information, research laboratory reports, War College thesis documents, DoD sponsored research from think-tanks and universities, and more.
Home to over 250,000 librarian-selected resources related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. Individual access can be requested by U.S. government officials or members of the U.S. military.