Tuition Assistance Usage and First-Term Military Retention

Abstract

Tuition assistance (TA) is a military-sponsored program that reimburses military members for the cost of college classes while on active duty. The program is part of a series of quality-of-life efforts designed to make military service more attractive to youth and encourage them to remain in the military. This report examines tuition assistance and retention behavior for first-term members of the Navy and Marine Corps (similar data were not available for other military services). The analysis examines what types of sailors and marines use TA and examines whether TA users are more prone to reenlist than are military members who take no college classes dur- ing the first term.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA408281

Entities

People

  • Kanika Kapur
  • Richard Buddin

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Business Administration
  • Databases
  • Demography
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Families (Human)
  • Job Training
  • Management Personnel
  • Personnel Management
  • Recruiting
  • Recruits
  • Students
  • Surveys
  • Training
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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