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Tuition Waiver Scholarship
Undergraduate tuition waived at Arizona public universities and community colleges — for purple heart recipients rated 50% or more, and for the survivors of a line-of-duty death.
Verified August 18, 2026
What this benefit is
Undergraduate tuition waived at Arizona public universities and community colleges — for purple heart recipients rated 50% or more, and for the survivors of a line-of-duty death.
What it's worth: Undergraduate tuition waived, to the credits a bachelor’s degree requires
- The waiver covers tuition only. Books, course fees, parking and room and board are not waived.
- Community college study is capped at 64 credit hours; university study is capped at the credits the degree requires. We do not publish a dollar figure because tuition differs by institution and by year.
Who is entitled to it
- You are enrolled at, or applying to, an Arizona public institution.
- You are the veteran.
- You hold a purple heart citation.
- Your VA rating is 50% or more.
- The member died in the line of duty.
- You are the surviving spouse.
- You have not remarried.
- You are the member's child.
- You are thirty or younger.
- The waiver is held at an Arizona public university or community college.
Not sure whether that describes you?
Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.
How to claim it
- 1File the verification form with the Arizona Department of Veterans' Services. The university does not process or approve it, and going to the campus office first is the most common way this one stalls.
- 2For the purple heart route, make sure your evidence shows the citation AND a VA rating of 50% or more — the citation alone is not the test.
- 3For a survivor claim, ask specifically about the post-traumatic stress provision if the death was a suicide. It is in the statute and it is rarely mentioned.
- Form
- Tuition Waiver and Verification Form
- File with
- The Arizona Department of Veterans' Services — not the university
- Documents you will need
- dd214 · va benefit summary letter
- Each term
- Claimed per academic term.
CorrectionThe Arizona test is residence or stationing AT THE TIME OF THE INJURY, not residence today. Someone who was an Arizona resident or stationed in Arizona when they were wounded may hold this even after moving away, and someone who moved to Arizona afterwards does not hold it at all. Summaries of this programme describe it as a benefit for Arizona veterans and drop the tense, which is the part that decides who gets it.
Worth knowingThe statute also reaches the survivors of a member who suffered a post-traumatic stress injury in the line of duty and later died by suicide. A family told they are not survivors of a line-of-duty death should read that provision before accepting the answer.
Worth knowingTwo further routes carry NO disability percentage: a current Arizona National Guard member who received a purple heart on or after 11 September 2001, and a former Arizona National Guard member medically discharged for an injury suffered in federal duty status. We do not model either above because we hold no Guard-membership question, so a Guard member should apply on the statute rather than on our result.
Known gapWe do not publish a dollar value. Tuition differs by institution and by year, and the waiver excludes fees, books and housing, so any single figure would overstate it for a community college student and understate it for a university one.
Sources
- authority · statuteA.R.S. §15-1808
- operating · published policyArizona State University — Veterans, Arizona Tuition Waiver
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