The Navy College Program, NCP, provides opportunities to Sailors
to earn college degrees by providing academic credit for Navy training, work
experience, and off-duty education. The Navy College Program
integrates all components of Voluntary Education. While the NCP is primarily
geared toward enlisted Sailors, some NCP components are also available to
officers. The NCP components are listed below:
Academic
Advice
Academic Skills
Apprenticeship Program
Defense Activity
for Non-Traditional Education Support (DANTES)
Navy College Program for
Afloat College Education (NCPACE)
NCP Distance Learning Partnership
Schools
Rating Roadmaps and Degree Roadmaps
Sailor/Marine American
Council on Education Registry Transcript (SMART)
Service members
Opportunity Colleges Navy (SOCNAV)
Tuition Assistance
Combining the
various components listed above, the Navy College Program serves the needs of
our mobile Sailors. They provide uncomplicated access to information
along the path to a degree including transferability of college credit and
access to education regardless of the Sailors' location or duty
station. Participation is voluntary. Sailors participate
at their own pace when they are ready.
Tuition Assistance
Tuition
Assistance (TA) is the Navy's educational financial assistance
program. It provides active duty personnel funding for tuition costs
for courses taken in an off-duty status at a regionally, nationally or
professionally accredited college, university, or vocational/technical
institution recognized by the Department of Education. Navy TA pays
for both classroom and independent study/distance learning courses, regardless
of course length.
Navy Tuition Assistance pays up-front the tuition and
fees charged by educational institutions for course enrollments. It is no longer
necessary for Navy students to pay tuition and show successful completion before
they are reimbursed. Navy TA pays 100% of tuition costs for courses
applicable to the completion of a high school diploma or equivalency
certificate. For other education levels, there is a fiscal year
credit limit of 12 Semester Hours, 18 Quarter Hours, 180 Clock Hours or 18 CEUs
per individual.
Payment for tuition and fees will not exceed the following
caps:
$250.00 per semester hour
$166.67 per quarter hour
$16.67 per
clock hour
$166.67 per Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
Requesting a waiver
remains a viable option for those Sailors who want to take more than 12-semester
hours per fiscal year, and have a compelling reason to do so.
Veterans'
Affairs (VA) Educational Assistance Programs
Veterans' Affairs (VA)
educational assistance is financial aid available for eligible veterans and
active-duty personnel to attend school. Veterans' educational assistance is
available primarily through the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational
Assistance (VEAP) and the Montgomery GI Bill (MGIB).