Surprising Facts and Things You Never Even Suspected About ROTC (AKA Military Science) at IUP!

• The Military Science department offers up to fourteen campus-based scholarships (minus the number of nursing scholarships awarded) to each academic class.
  
  
• IUP Army ROTC offers two- and three-year scholarships to university students. To apply, students do not have to be Military Science (ROTC) students.
  
  
• The ROTC program is open to both men and women and offers, to those who complete the total program, a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
  
  
• Equipment, ROTC textbooks, and uniforms are issued without cost to enrolled students.
  
  
• Training is given in practical skills such as self-defense, adventure training, rappelling, marksmanship, orienteering, first aid techniques, and water safety.
  
  
• The second, or advanced, phase of training includes studies in advanced leadership and management, tactics, military law, and psychological, physiological, and social factors which affect human behavior.
  
  
• Participation in the Advanced Course will earn the student approximately $3,500, between $150-a-month subsistence and pay for summer camp.
  
  
• Students seeking advanced degrees can be granted an educational delay by the Army following completion of their baccalaureate degrees. Upon completion of the advanced degree, students then enter active duty or Army Reserve/National Guard duty.