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) For more detailed information, contact your local Navy College
Office, the VA office at the college or university you are attending, or the
Navy Personnel Command, PERS-604, at DSN 882-4258/59 or 901-874-4258/59.