Scholarships

Yale Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC)

Air Force ROTC

Competitive scholarships are awarded several times throughout the year and are given to freshmen and sophomores. The qualifying factors used for selection include GPA, Fitness, AFOQT or SAT scores, as well as a commander ranking for non-quantifiable items such as leadership attributes, teamwork, and your performance within your year group during leadership lab and other ROTC events.

Program adviser: Lieutenant Colonel Holly Hermes, USAF; Rm. 450, 55 Whitney Ave., 432-9431; airforce@yale.edu; afrotc.yalecollege.yale.edu

Naval ROTC

The Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) program educates young men and women for service as commissioned officers in the United States Navy (USN) or Marine Corps (USMC). NROTC develops future officers mentally, morally, and physically, and instills in them the highest ideals of duty and loyalty and the core values of honor, courage, and commitment. The Naval Science program prepares students to assume the highest responsibilities of command, citizenship, and government.

Program adviser: Commander Scott Ryan, USN, Rm. 430, 55 Whitney Ave., 432-8223; nrotc.yalecollege.yale.edu

Application to the National Scholarship Program

Eligible applicants must use the online application to complete and submit all the required information to apply for the NROTC scholarship. Applicants select either the Navy or Marine Corps option and scholarship recipients are appointed midshipmen in either the United States Naval Reserve (USNR) or United States Marine Corps Reserve (USMCR), as appropriate. Scholarship recipients are granted the compensation and benefits authorized by law and current policy for a total period not to exceed four years (forty months or fifty months with approved fifth year benefits). During this period, the United States government pays for college tuition, authorized academic fees, a textbook stipend, and a subsistence allowance, and provides uniforms or compensation in lieu. Upon conferral of a degree, graduates are commissioned into the Navy or Marine Corps for a minimum of five years of active duty service. Yale students who matriculate without a scholarship may apply for the National Scholarship program during the fall term of their first year.

Application to the College Program

Students without a scholarship, who are in their first or second year, may apply for enrollment in the College Program and compete for two- or three-year scholarships. If selected for the two- or three-year Scholarship Program, students receive the same benefits as students in the National Scholarship Program for their remaining undergraduate studies. Upon conferral of a degree, graduates of the College Program are commissioned into the Navy or Marine Corps for a minimum of three years of active duty service. Yale students interested in the College Program may apply directly to the Yale University NROTC Unit.