Guide to Military Friendly Colleges and Universities

The 3rd Annual Guide to Military Friendly Colleges and Universities is now available to view. This guide includes colleges and universities gathered together from the editors of the KMI Media Group that provide military-friendly benefits, programs, and support. This uniform, pertinent information should help prospective students select a school to begin or continue their advanced education. Some of the schools in the guide offer a broad range of educational choices; others are highly specialized.

Some of the benefits many of these schools offer:

• Distance learning programs that don’t require students to step foot onto a physical campus, for military students that are deployed or otherwise unable to attend a campus
• Financial aid departments that support the Yellow Ribbon Program and/or Post 9/11 GI Bill
• Academic programs that count military experience towards a degree
• Schools that have specialized scholarships and/or other benefits for military spouses, children, and/or service members

The 3rd Annual Guide to Military Friendly Colleges and Universities opens with a word of caution: “not any one of these schools is necessarily the best choice for any individual student. This listing is merely intended as a guide to some, but by no means all, of the colleges and universities serving military-related students in the United States today. Among the attributes considered in evaluating schools is their regional or national accreditation and their membership in the Service-members Opportunity Colleges (SOC) consortium, which ensures that members meet set criteria for granting credit for specified military experience and training. All the schools in this guide, unless otherwise noted, are SOC members.”

When going through the guide, certain schools are marked with icons to the right of their names. These are schools with multiple benefits for a military family or service member. There are also schools marked with an icon resembling a computer mouse that provide commendable distance learning programs. Schools with excelling academics have an icon of a hand holding a pen. Those that are friendly to veterans in particular have medal. Several schools have more than one specialized icon.

Check out the following schools that are included in the guide:

• Jones International University
• Colorado State University Global Campus
• Robert Morris University

You can download the guide here.