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The Marine Corps provides up to 100 percent tuition assistance to all active-duty and Reserve enlisted Marines on continuous active duty attending accredited colleges and universities.

Tuition-assistance funding is limited to $250 per semester hour or equivalent in undergraduate, graduate, vocational and technical classes, independent study and distance-learning programs. Marines may not exceed $4,500 in tuition-assistance funds each fiscal year.

Active-duty officers may receive TA funding if they agree to stay on active duty for two continuous years after completing the TA-funded course according to a Marine Corps-wide message.

TA funds “are authorized for study or degree at a higher academic level than that currently held,” the message states. If prerequisites for the next higher degree are required by the academic institution, TA funds may be used for up to nine semester hours of those prerequisites.

TA funds may not be used for courses that end after a Marine’s end-of-service date or for books, computers or “other tangible items.”