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Military Tuition Assistance

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Eligibility Requirements

Tuition Assistance (TA) is a benefit offered to service members to assist with the cost of tuition. You may request TA from 45 days up to 7 days prior to your class start date. TA typically covers up to $250 per credit hour with a fiscal year limit of 16 credit hours. Please complete the TA request process on the Army IgnitEd Portal, once TA is approved please print/save the approved TA request sheet and submit it along with the Verification of Military Service form PDF icon image to Student Account Services, to apply this assistance to your account.

Tuition Eligibility table

Additional Eligibility Requirements

  • Soldiers will not be eligible to use TA until successfully completing one year after graduating Advanced Individual Training (AIT), Officer Candidate School (OCS) or Basic Officer Leaders Course (BOLC).
  • Students will be restricted to 16 credit hours per fiscal year.
  • Soldiers are limited to 130 credit hours to complete a bachelor’s degree and 39 credit hours to complete a master’s degree.
  • Soldiers cannot use TA for a second higher level degree until completion of 10 years of service.
  • This requirement does not apply if TA did not pay for any portion of the student's undergraduate degree.
  • Soldier cannot be funded for a second equivalent degree (i.e. no second bachelor’s or master’s degree).
  • All courses must be part of an approved degree plan.
  • TA cannot be used for professional degrees (i.e. Ph.D., M.D., J.D.).
  • The policy for not allowing TA for Soldiers who are flagged for APFT/height/weight will continue.
  • Additional information related to TA can be found here: www.armyignited.army.mil/student/public/welcome

Note: USC Upstate does not determine eligibility for Tuition Assistance. The above noted items were received from the U.S. Army. Please contact your ESO to determine your full eligibility requirements.

Steps to Apply:

  1. Create an Army ignited Account and set USC Upstate as your school. Please see the Create and Account Guide PDF icon for instruction on how to set up your Army Ignited Account.
  2. Follow the steps on the Create Tuition Assistance Request Guide PDF icon, to request your TA.
    (Please note, you will follow the manual instructions to request your TA)
  3. Once your TA request is approved, please submit a copy of the approved TA from to Taylor Dixon by email at tdixon3@uscupstate.edu

Please note: This is a time sensitive process and there will be no exception to the deadline of 7 business days prior to the start of class.

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