Marine Corps Tuition Assistance (TA) pays up to 100% of costs for taking college courses while on active duty.
TA is available to all active-duty Marines. Tuition assistance is also available to reservists on continuous active duty, enlisted reservists ordered to active duty 120 days, and reserve officers ordered to active duty for two years or more.
Payment Rates
The Marine Corps will pay 100% of tuition, not to exceed:
- $250 per semester credit hour
- $166.67 per quarter credit hour
- $4,500 per fiscal year
- 138 semester hours toward an undergraduate degree
- 45 semester hours toward a graduate degree
Eligibility
- First-time users may take only one course for their first enrollment. All others are limited to no more than two courses at a time.
- Must have a minimum GT score of 100 or a minimum TABE score of 11 to take two classes.
- Must complete Personal Readiness Seminar.
Details
- TA may not be used while Marines are assigned to their military occupational specialty (MOS) school; residential professional military education (PME), such as the Corporals Course, Sergeants Course, Career Course, etc.; SkillBridge; or any other special professional education program.
- Marines taking TA-funded courses must be eligible for promotion; or qualify for an honorable discharge if they're in their final service obligation.
- TA can't pay for the same course more than once.
- TA can't be approved retroactively. Applications must be submitted and command approved before the course starts.
- You must earn a grade of C or higher in non-graduate-level coursework; a B or higher in graduate-level courses; or a "pass" in a pass/fail course. If not, you have to repay all TA funds for that course.
- Fees such as those for equipment, supplies and exams are not covered by TA.
- Only schools with an approved DOD Voluntary Education Partnership MOU are eligible to participate in DOD Voluntary Education programs, including military Tuition Assistance.
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