Air Force ROTC offers scholarships in all academic majors necessary to meet Air Force needs. These needs can change from year to year. You should carefully consider the academic majors you put on your application. You may list one, two or three academic majors, but you should list only academic majors you would be willing to pursue.
Offer Categories
If you are selected for a scholarship, Air Force ROTC will notify you of the length and type of scholarship and the academic major of the offer. You must then decide to accept or decline the scholarship offer in that major.
Offers are made in any one of the following categories:
Technical Majors
- Aeronautical Engineering - 4AYY
- Aerospace Engineering - 4BYY
- Architectural Engineering - 4DYY
- Architecture - 2CAY
- Astronautical Engineering - 4EYY
- Chemistry - 8CYY
- Civil Engineering - 4HYY
- Computer Engineering - 4WYY
- Computer Science - 0CYY
- Electrical Engineering - 4IYY
- Environmental Engineering - 4HEY
- Mathematics - 6YYY
- Mechanical Engineering - 4MYY
- Meteorology/Atmospheric Sciences - 8FYY
- Operations Research - 0YEY
- Physics - 8HYY
Nontechnical Majors
- All other majors
Foreign Language Majors
- Arabic
- Azerbaijani
- Bengali
- Cambodian
- Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese)
- Hausa
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Japanese
- Kazakh
- Kurdish
- Malay
- Middle East (Area of Studies)
- Pashtu
- Persian-Iranian/Persian-Afghan
- Russian
- Serbo-Croatian
- Soviet Union (Area of Studies)
- Swahili
- Thai
- Turkish
- Uighur
- Urdu/Punjabi
- Uzbek
- Vietnamese
Colleges and Your Major
More than 1000 colleges and universities in the continental United States, Puerto Rico and Hawaii offer Air Force ROTC. Be sure the school(s) you select accept you in the academic major(s) you indicate on your scholarship application. By applying early, you will be prepared to accept any scholarship major Air Force ROTC offers.
For example, you are offered an electrical engineering scholarship. To use your scholarship, you must be admitted as an electrical engineering major at a college or university with an Air Force ROTC program, and the school’s electrical engineering program must be Air Force approved.
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Transfers
Students are expected to graduate from the college or university where they begin their freshman year. A transfer to another university or college is subject to approval by the losing unit commander
commanderThe officer in charge of running an Air Force unit's day-to-day operations. . If a transfer is approved, the scholarship will be capped at the tuition rate of the lower cost school regardless of the scholarship type (for example, if you started at a school with tuition of $5000 per year and then transfer to one with tuition at $12,000 per year, the scholarship is capped at $5000 per year).
Premed, Nursing and Other Medical-Related Majors
If you are applying for one of these majors, you will compete for a nontechnical scholarship. Be advised that if you receive and activate a scholarship in one of these majors, you are not guaranteed that specialty upon commissioning. After you complete your freshman, sophomore or junior year, you must compete on the prehealth, nursing or biomedical science corps designation boards to receive the Air Force designator for that specialty. The designator guarantees you will enter that specialty upon commissioning. If you are not selected on one of these boards, you will retain your scholarship, but you will enter the Air Force as a line officer upon being commissioned and be accessed into a specialty based on the needs of the Air Force.
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