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:: Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges
This program opens doors!
Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges (SOC) enables military members and their families to get
college degrees through a group of over 1,200 colleges, universities, and technical institutes.
SOC member schools all acknowledge and transfer your credits efficiently, which makes it possible
for you to continue your college studies as you move to new duty stations.
SOC features include:
- Your own degree plan and "home college."
- A program ensuring that no one SOC school needs to contribute more than 25 percent of total degree course work.
- College credit for both your military experience and for accredited military training courses.
- College credit for national tests such as CLEP (College Level Examination Program).
SOC is a fabulous deal.
Hundreds of thousands of servicemembers and their families are enrolled each year in SOC.
Course work can be done both in the classroom and at a distance by computer or correspondence.
SOC coordinates associate and bachelor's degrees in a variety of curriculum areas for the
Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. These degree programs are offered by colleges and
universities on or accessible to military installations worldwide. Within each curriculum
or degree network, member colleges agree to accept each other's credits in transfer.
Servicemembers and their family members in isolated locations can take courses through such
"distance learning" methods as the Internet, correspondence, computer, or video.
SOCGuard, an SOC program
for the Army National Guard, supports Education Services Officers
in developing partnerships with the higher education community in their state.
The goals of SOCGuard are to link Army National Guard civilian and military education and training needs
with degree programs offered by local colleges and universities; assist Army National Guard
ESOs in marketing education benefits; and assist the Army National Guard to
maximize the participation of soldiers in federal and state education benefit programs.
In cooperation with the United States Army Recruiting Command, SOC operates the
Concurrent Admissions Program (ConAP)
to increase college enrollment of Army recruits and reservists.
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