Military and Veteran Services
Military-Affiliated Student Resources:
Serving those who serve.
From regularly securing the prestigious Military Friendly® designation to helping veterans launch a business, ETSU has a long and established history of assisting those who served in the U.S. military.
ETSU is home to nearly 1,000 military-affiliated students. For those looking to serve as an officer after graduation we have the top Army ROTC program in Tennessee — and one of the best in the country.
Plus, ETSU's campus is home to one of the nation's best Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, VAMC Mountain Home, which consistently ranks in the top 5 nationally.Through our close partnership with Mountain Home, ETSU and ETSU Health students and faculty help provide world-class care for veterans throughout the region and drive cutting-edge research to improve veterans' health and well-being.
ETSU offers numerous financial resources to help military-affiliated students pay for college.
SALUTE is the first national academic honor society established for student veterans and active military.
ETSU's STRIVE program is a free entrepreneurship training program for veterans, reservists, and national
guard members.
A Military-Friendly® University
After almost 12 years of active duty in the United States Marine Corps, Jake Berens wanted to pursue a career in medicine.
The health sciences major, now the president of the ETSU Student Veterans of America, started classes at ETSU in January 2022.
“The Office of Military and Veteran Services at ETSU consists of an incredible team
of veterans whose passion has been instrumental in improving the veteran and military-affiliated
student experience on campus,” he said. “The work that this office does is remarkable,
and the value is impossible to measure for the students they serve. The office staff
serve as advocates, advisers, VA education experts, coaches and community representatives,
and they fill all of those roles above and beyond what is expected of them.”
He added: “Working with the Office of Military and Veteran Services to build a military-affiliated
student community on campus has been remarkable. They serve as an absolute catalyst
for the efforts of the Student Veterans of America at ETSU as well as the rest of
our student population.”
Experiences like that have helped ETSU secure the Military Friendly® School designation for the 14th consecutive year. It is a notable honor that institutions earn through public data analysis and responses from surveys.
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