Serving those who served our country
Why consider earning your degree at Northeastern as a military servicemember or veteran?
Here at Northeastern, we're commited to providing a top-tier educational experience along with dedicated support services to help military veterans and servicemembers achieve their educational and career goals. We understand military students' unique educational journeys and value the qualities that many veterans and servicemembers possess and bring to the classroom: leadership, maturity, and effectiveness in teams.
No matter the path you take to Northeastern, we're here for you:
- A dedicated center for military servicemembers run by veterans offers resources like 1:1 financial aid counseling, help navigating your military benefits, and a community off-campus is available for you right from the get-go.
- Military-specific financial aid opportunities to bridge the gap between what your benefits provide and the actual cost of an education like an Unlimited Yellow Ribbon Program (if eligible you could earn your degree 100% fully funded), Military Scholarship Opportunities, and Tuition Assistance Matching.
- Some faculty and staff that are veterans and understand the unique needs of military students.
- Program offerings that seamlessly transfer your past military experience. Some military experience can even gain you class credits towards your degree.
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"Our classrooms come alive when active duty and veteran servicemembers share their priceless professional and leadership experiences with their classmates. In return, they gain valuable opportunities to better prepare them for the civilian workforce. As a retired Marine who transitioned to the civilian workforce, I believe these interactive and dynamic relationships benefit all students."
Les Stein, Faculty Lead of the Master of Science in Leadership program
College of Professional Studies
Northeastern is dedicated to making higher education affordable for our military-affiliated students through:
- Yellow Ribbon Program: Qualified recipients of the Yellow Ribbon Program will receive unlimited institutional matching funds (up to 100% of tuition and mandatory fees) from Northeastern.
- Military-Specific Scholarships: Northeastern offers a variety of scholarships to make a Northeastern education attainable.
- Military Tuition Rate: Active U.S. servicemembers are eligible to receive an amended tuition rate of $250 per semester hour for our Bachelor's Degree Completion programs through the College of Professional Studies.
- Tuition Assistance Matching: Northeastern offers a dollar-for-dollar match of what your branch of service pays toward your education up to the cost of attendance for graduate students.
- Credit for Your Military Experience: Take advantage of your past military experience to finish your bachelor’s or earn a master’s degree from Northeastern.
Flexible programs that align with military students' past and future career interests
Bachelor's Completion degrees popular with veterans
- BS Project Management
- BS Information Technology
- BS Psychology
- and more
Master's degrees popular with veterans
- MS Leadership
- MS Project Management
- MS Business Analytics
- MA Homeland Security
- MA Strategic Intelligence Analysis
- And more
Doctorate degrees popular with veterans
- Doctor of Education
- Doctor of Law and Policy
- And more
About Northeastern University
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experiential lifelong learning. Our approach of integrating real-world experience with education, research, and innovation empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create worldwide impact.
Our global university system provides our community and academic, government, and industry partners with unique opportunities to think locally and act globally. The system—which includes 13 campuses across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, 320,000-plus alumni, and more than 3,800 partners worldwide—serves as a platform for scaling ideas, talent, and solutions.
Northeastern’s personalized, experiential undergraduate and graduate programs lead to degrees through the doctorate in 10 colleges and schools across our campuses. Learning emphasizes the intersection of data, technology, and human literacies, uniquely preparing graduates for careers of the future and lives of fulfillment and accomplishment.
Our research enterprise, with an R1 Carnegie classification, is solutions oriented and spans the world. Our faculty scholars and students work in teams that cross not just disciplines, but also sectors—aligned around solving today’s highly interconnected global challenges and focused on transformative impact for humankind.