Coast Guard Tuition Assistance

Coast Guard Tuition Assistance (TA) helps servicemembers complete their education by offering them up to $4,500 annually for classes taken from nationally or regionally accredited institutions. If you are elegible, AllMilitary.com can help you find schools where you can use Tuition Assistance.

Highlights

• Tuition Assistance covers:
  • Developmental courses in math, English and reading. 
  • 100% of tuition and fees for most vocational programs
  • 100% of tuition and fees for most college coursework

Drawbacks

• The Coast Guard will only pay up to a certain amount for each credit hour and only up to a certain amount each year:
  • $250 each semester credit hour
    Or
  • $166 each quarter credit hour
    And
  • The total amount is capped at $4,500 each fiscal year.
  
  
• Tuition Assistance does not cover:
  • Student activity fees, parking fees or student IDs
  • Textbooks
  • Preassembled items available to the general public, such as computers and televisions
  • Fees for flight time, flying lessons or noncredit aviation classes
  • Application, course registration, entrance, record-maintenance or enrollment fees
  • Tools or equipment

  • Certification courses and tests, or licenses 

Find out whether you are eligible for Tuition Assistance and then apply.