DOD Education Benefits: Data on Officer Participation in and Views on the Tuition Assistance Program : Government Accountability Office (GAO) , September 16 , 2019
DOD Education Benefits: Data on Officer Participation in and Views on the Tuition Assistance Program : Government Accountability Office (GAO) , September 16 , 2019
From the report, “In fiscal year 2018, DOD provided tuition assistance to about 15,000 active-duty commissioned officers at a cost of almost $31 million. In the same fiscal year, DOD provided tuition assistance funding toward about 200,000 active-duty officers’ and enlisted servicemembers’ enrollment in over 600,000 courses at a program cost of around $425 million. As a result, active-duty commissioned officers comprised about 7 percent of tuition assistance participants, courses taken, and program costs in fiscal year 2018. The length of active-duty officers’ commissioned service, including the periods of service prior to and after using tuition assistance benefits, varied over the years included in our review.4 The median length of active-duty officers’ commissioned service before receiving tuition assistance ranged from 3.14 years to 5.36 years across the military services. Among active-duty officers who last used tuition assistance 10 years ago—in fiscal year 2009—the percentage who remained in commissioned service as of May 2019 ranged from 26 percent to 67 percent across the services. Among active-duty officers who have separated after last using tuition assistance in 2009, the median length of commissioned service after last using tuition assistance ranged from 3.66 years to 5.48 years. The median total length of commissioned service among the same group of officers ranged from 11.00 years to 13.75 years.”
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