Planning Your Program
Army ROTC is the best leadership course you can take in college. Prospective cadet candidates can apply for admission to the Department of Military Science and Leadership as incoming first-year students or later in their academic careers. Full-tuition programs are available for lateral entry students, from students' first year on campus through graduate school.
Students who complete the four-year program take classes once a week as freshmen and sophomores and twice a week as juniors and seniors. Students who enter the program as sophomores or juniors, attend the Leader's Training Course for 28 days at Fort Knox, Kentucky in order to validate courses they would have taken during their freshman and sophomore years. They continue taking classes twice a week during their junior and senior years. Students considering the program as second semester juniors should contact us to determine eligibility.
Military science courses maximize hands-on practical exercises, allowing students to achieve training objectives through classroom experiences and experiential learning. The department uses the National Cadet Command curriculum as the basis for each military science and leadership course. Professors are first and foremost military officers themselves—a fact that makes an ROTC education all the more relevant to the real world.
