Eligible veterans get tuition awards up to State University of New York rates for full-time or part-time study in an approved undergraduate or graduate degree programme, or an approved vocational training programme in New York. Full time means 12 or more credits a semester or 24 or more hours a week of vocational training; part time means three to 11 credits or six to 23 hours. Awards run up to two years for a full-time associate degree, four for a bachelor’s, five for an approved five-year programme, three for a graduate degree and two for vocational training, with the part-time limits doubled. You can combine it with the Montgomery GI Bill but not with the Yellow Ribbon programme or the Post-9/11 GI Bill, and your combined tuition benefits cannot exceed your actual tuition.
Complete the New York State VTA online application and supply the documentation it asks for. For help, book a call using the New York Higher Education Services Corporation call scheduler.
Your DD214 or other discharge paperwork showing your service and discharge character, proof of 12 continuous months of New York residency, your high school diploma, equivalency diploma or Ability to Benefit test result, and a completed New York State Tuition Assistance Program application and FAFSA.
