Army ROTC Nurse Scholarship

Accepting Applications

About the Scholarship

Opens: 11/1/2024

Closes: 1/13/2025

Army ROTC Nurse Scholarship provides financial assistance to high school seniors or graduates who are interested in enrolling in Army ROTC and majoring in nursing in college.

Win up to

$20,000

Essay Required: No
Need-Based: No
Merit-Based: No
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Requirements

Applicants for the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) Nurse program must 1) be U.S. citizens; 2) be at least 17 years of age by October of the year in which they are seeking a scholarship; 3) be no more than 27 years of age when they graduate from college after 4 years; 4) score at least 920 on the combined mathematics and critical reading SAT or 19 on the ACT; 5) have a high school GPA of 2.5 or higher, and 6) meet medical and other regulatory requirements.

This program is open to ROTC scholarship applicants who wish to enroll in a nursing program at 1 of approximately 100 designated partner colleges and universities and become Army nurses after graduation.

Scholarship winners must serve in the military for 8 years. That service obligation may be fulfilled 1) by serving on active duty for 4 years followed by service in the Army National Guard (ARNG), the United States Army Reserve (USAR), or the Inactive Ready Reserve (IRR) for the remainder of the 8 years; or 2) by serving 8 years in an ARNG or USAR troop program unit that includes a 3 to 6-month active-duty period for initial training.