Military Service Members and Veterans in Undergraduate and Graduate Education

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A new NCES report found that in 2007–08, about 4 percent of all undergraduates and about 4 percent of all graduate students were veterans or military service members. Military Service Members and Veterans: A Profile of Those Enrolled in Undergraduate and Graduate Education in 2007–08, a Statistics in Brief, presents these military students’ demographic and enrollment characteristics and compares them with their nonmilitary counterparts.

Results are based on nationally representative data collected through the 2007–08 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:08) and the 2004/06 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:04/06).

Findings include:

• In 2007-08, just prior to the implementation to the Post-9/11 GI Bill, about 38 percent of military undergraduates and 20 percent of military graduate students used GI Bill education benefits.

• At both the undergraduate and graduate level, military students were more likely than their nonmilitary peers to be male, married, and enrolled in at least one distance education class.