How long are the FBI, CBP, and ATF academies in 2025 in weeks and training hours?

1. FBI: the Quantico new‑agent academy — weeks and hours

The FBI’s training page states that new agents undergo an approximately 18‑week program at Quantico and that new agents “spend more than 800 hours” in academics, case exercises, firearms, and operations skills during that period ^[1]; reporting therefore supports a direct answer for 2025 that the primary FBI special‑agent entry academy is ~18 weeks and >800 hours ^[1]. There is an important caveat: the FBI operates several distinct courses under the “academy” umbrella — for example, the FBI National Academy is a separate 10‑week executive program for experienced law‑enforcement professionals, not the new‑agent basic training ^{[7] [8]} — so “the FBI academy” must be disambiguated as the Basic Field Training Program for newly hired special agents when citing the 18‑week / 800+ hour figure ^{[1] [7]}.

2. ATF: split curriculum at FLETC — weeks, and the silence on hours

ATF’s official pages describe a two‑part new‑agent path hosted at the FLETC Glynco campus: a 12‑week Criminal Investigator Training Program followed by a 15‑week Special Agent Basic Training, which together amount to roughly 27 weeks of academy‑phase training for a newly hired ATF special agent ^{[2] [3] [4]}. ATF materials enumerate curricula, exams, and class sizes but the supplied ATF texts do not publish a summed total of training hours for the combined CITP + SABT sequence, nor do they list an authoritative “hours” figure comparable to the FBI’s “more than 800 hours” statement ^{[2] [4] [3]}. Therefore the most accurate, sourcing‑based answer is weeks = ~27; training‑hours = not specified in the provided ATF sources ^{[2] [3]}.

3. CBP: available reporting is inconclusive for 2025

The documents provided concerning CBP training are third‑party informational pages that track class schedules and historical practice (HonorFirst and an HonorFirst Border Patrol schedule page), but those pages explicitly caution they are not official CBP guidance and instruct readers to consult CBP.gov for authoritative information ^{[5] [6]}. Neither HonorFirst snippet in the provided set gives a firm FY2025 total number of weeks or a verified hours total for the full CBP academy pipeline; the page instead lists class counts, locations, and a disclaimer about changes ^{[5] [6]}. Because the user requested a direct, sourced answer for 2025, the responsible conclusion from the available reporting is that provided sources do not definitively state CBP’s academy length in weeks or training hours for 2025, and official CBP materials would be required to answer that piece authoritatively ^{[5] [6]}.

4. Reconciling differences, caveats and where to look next

The reporting shows a clear, sourced figure for the FBI basic new‑agent academy (≈18 weeks, >800 hours) and clear week counts for ATF’s two‑part pathway (12 weeks + 15 weeks = ≈27 weeks) but a lack of reliable primary‑source detail in the supplied reporting for CBP’s academy duration or hours ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}. Interested readers should treat the FBI “800+ hours / 18 weeks” statement as an agency‑published number and the ATF 12‑ and 15‑week split as agency‑published weeks while recognizing ATF did not provide a combined hours total in the cited material ^{[1] [2] [3]}. For CBP, consult CBP’s official careers/training pages or direct CBP communications for 2025 specifics rather than third‑party aggregators, because the supplied HonorFirst pages carry explicit non‑official disclaimers ^{[5] [6]}.