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These are the top 50 educational institutions chosen by active-duty service members using tuition assistance during the 2010 fiscal year.

 

To create this list, Military Times EDGE requested tuition assistance data on students, course enrollments and funds from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Army National Guard and Coast Guard. The Air Force information included data for the active-duty Air National Guard. We combined the lists and grouped named college systems together to determine which schools served the most tuition assistance users in fiscal 2010. In two instances involving 49 students, service officials were unable to distinguish between schools with the same name by press time.

 

Individual colleges within a system that would make the top 50 if counted separately are in parentheses.


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  School System Headquarters Status Highest Degree Students Courses TA Funds
1 American Public University System (American Military University) Charles Town, W.V. for profit master's 44,625 134,019 $91,257,194
2 University System of Maryland (University of Maryland University College) Adelphi, Md. public doctoral 31,106 78,122 $45,113,279
3 Central Texas College Killeen, Texas public associate 26,613 70,706 $30,343,537
4 University of Phoenix Phoenix for profit doctoral 17,209 55,237 $36,943,791
5 Ashford University Clinton, Iowa for profit master's 13,207 41,368 $29,646,911
6 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Daytona Beach, Fla. nonprofit doctoral 12,626 32,451 $22,653,203
7 Trident University International Cypress, Calif. for profit doctoral 12,189 35,937 $33,391,634
8 Park University Parkville, Mo. nonprofit master's 10,685 24,960 $14,489,870
9 Columbia Southern University Orange Beach, Ala. for profit doctoral 9,298 30,389 $17,537,785
10 Grantham University Kansas City, Mo. for profit master's 7,621 30,072 $18,677,270
11 California Community College System (Coastline Community College) Sacramento, Calif. public associate? 6,440 14,439 $5,525,012
12 Columbia College, Mo. Columbia, Mo. nonprofit master's 5,559 16,311 $9,207,800
13 Troy University Troy, Ala. public doctoral 5,365 19,575 $10,834,044
14 Excelsior College Albany, N.Y. nonprofit master's 5,136 14,456 $8,859,010
15 Washington State Community and Technical Colleges (Pierce College) Olympia, Wash. public bachelor's 4,962 13,598 $6,522,675
16 Liberty University Lynchburg, Va. nonprofit doctoral 4,592 16,488 $10,633,371
17 Saint Leo University Saint Leo, Fla. nonprofit master's 4,550 14,019 $7,986,243
18 Kaplan Higher Education Fort Lauderdale, Fla. for profit juris doctor 4,295 12,550 $9,250,326
19 Thomas Edison State College Trenton, N.J. public master's 4,002 9,806 $6,642,425
20 DeVry University Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. for profit master's 3,768 12,015 $9,226,848
21 Florida College System (Florida State College at Jacksonville & Northwest Florida State College Tallahassee, Fla. public bachelor's 3,375 8,696 $2,491,535
22 Webster University St. Louis nonprofit doctoral 3,241 10,156 $7,097,845
23 Wayland Baptist University Plainview, Texas nonprofit master's 2,607 7,927 $4,989,700
24 Vincennes University Vincennes, Ind. public bachelor's 2,494 5,702 $2,748,748
25 Virginia Community College System (Tidewater Community College) Richmond, Va. public associate 2,429 6,519 $2,154,790
26 Hawaii Pacific University Honolulu nonprofit master's 2,101 6,393 $3,149,311
27 Bellevue University Bellevue, Neb. nonprofit doctoral 2,082 7,102 $5,866,167
28 Strayer University Washington, D.C. for profit master's 2,033 6,468 $4,500,738
29 North Carolina Community Colleges (Fayetteville Technical Community College) Raleigh, N.C. public associate 1,842 6,170 $1,026,594
30 North Dakota University System Bismarck, N.D. public doctoral 1,676 5,916 $2,948,771
31 State University and Community College System of Tennessee (Austin Peay State University) Nashville, Tenn. public doctoral 1,641 7,394 $3,183,707
32 Colorado Technical University Colorado Springs, Colo. for profit doctoral 1,468 5,922 $3,410,765
33 Maricopa Community Colleges (Rio Salado College) Tempe, Ariz. public associate 1,400 3,276 $1,151,325
34 University of Oklahoma Norman, Okla. public doctoral 1,307 3,956 $2,736,182
35 Colorado Community College System (Pikes Peak Community College) Denver public associate 1,289 3,659 $1,478,140
36 National University System La Jolla, Calif. nonprofit master's 1,287 3,593 $2,407,978
37 University System of Georgia Atlanta public doctoral 1,209 5,453 $2,403,659
38 Southwestern College, Kan. Winfield, Kan. nonprofit master's 1,157 3,970 $2,681,623
39 State University of New York Albany, N.Y. public doctoral 1,140 3,322 $1,684,063
40 Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Ill. public doctoral 1,085 4,340 $2,771,460
41 American InterContinental University Atlanta for profit master's 1,038 3,279 $2,622,908
42 Minnesota State Colleges and Universities St. Paul, Minn. public doctoral 1,035 5,041 $2,557,981
43 University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska public doctoral 1,001 2,253 $965,865
44 University of North Carolina System Chapel Hill, N.C. public doctoral 993 4,727 $1,510,072
45 South Carolina Technical College System Columbia, S.C. public associate 973 2,982 $1,269,029
46 University of Management and Technology Arlington, Va. for profit doctoral 952 3,450 $2,533,495
47 National American University Rapid City, S.D. for profit master's 905 2,325 $1,605,033
48 Campbell University Buies Creek, N.C. nonprofit doctoral 873 2,806 $1,631,268
49 Texas A&M University System College Station, Texas public doctoral 857 4,140 $1,834,848
50 Alamo Colleges San Antonio, Texas public associate 800 2,359 $579,286