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Guard Educational Assistance — Tuition and Fees Paid, With Twenty-Four More Months Owed

The Kansas National Guard Educational Assistance Act pays a percentage of tuition and fees, up to the maximum rate charged by state institutions, for a serving guard member reading for a certificate, diploma or degree. The percentage moves with the appropriation and the number of applicants. After the last assisted semester, twenty-four further months of Guard service are owed — or the money is repaid.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

The Kansas National Guard Educational Assistance Act pays a percentage of tuition and fees, up to the maximum rate charged by state institutions, for a serving guard member reading for a certificate, diploma or degree. The percentage moves with the appropriation and the number of applicants. After the last assisted semester, twenty-four further months of Guard service are owed — or the money is repaid.

What it's worth: A percentage of tuition and fees, capped at the maximum rate charged by state institutions

  • The percentage is not fixed. The Board of Regents states plainly that the award depends on funds designated by the Legislature, the number of eligible applicants, and the student’s federal tuition assistance — so it can fall well short of full tuition in a crowded year.
  • At a Kansas independent college the award is capped at the maximum rate charged by public institutions, not at the private rate.
  • No dollar figure is claimed because none is published and the variable is the appropriation.

Who is entitled to it

  • The act names eligible members of the Kansas national guard and eligible dependants of those members.
  • You are in this state.

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

Deadline: Set by the Board of Regents; fall and spring semesters only
  1. 1Read the service obligation before signing the Student Agreement, because it is the whole of the risk: after the last semester of tuition assistance you serve twenty-four further months in the Kansas National Guard, or you repay the Board of Regents the amount you received.
  2. 2Six standing conditions: current member of the Kansas National Guard in good standing; a high school diploma or GED; enrolled at a Kansas institution with at least a 2.0 GPA; no bachelor’s degree already; a FAFSA on file at the institution; and an application for federal tuition assistance where that applies.
  3. 3Send your transcript to your Guard unit at the end of each semester. It is a condition of the programme, not a courtesy.
  4. 4Full-time enrolment is NOT required, which makes this usable alongside a job.
  5. 5Fall and spring only. The Board of Regents states the assistance is not available for summer terms.
  6. 6Eligible institutions are wide: the six state universities, Washburn University, community colleges, technical colleges, and accredited independent colleges and universities located in Kansas.
  7. 7Keep proof of everything you were paid. Repayment is calculated on the amount of the scholarship received, so the record matters if the obligation is not completed.
Form
State of Kansas Student Aid Application, plus the FAFSA and the Student Agreement
File with
Kansas Board of Regents, with the adjutant general certifying Guard standing
Each term
Claimed per academic term.
CorrectionThis programme is regularly written up as "100% of tuition and fees for the Kansas National Guard". The Board of Regents’ own sheet does not promise that. It says the programme provides "a percentage of tuition and fees", and that the percentage is determined by the number of eligible students and available appropriations. Treat a full award as the best case, not the baseline.
CorrectionThe older Kansas National Guard statute at K.S.A. 48-1901 was REPEALED in 2011. Anyone searching chapter 48 for the educational assistance act will find nothing; it lives at K.S.A. 74-32,145 et seq. under the Board of Regents.
Worth knowingA separate Guard programme sits nearby: the Kansas National Guard Educational Master’s for Enhanced Readiness and Global Excellence, at K.S.A. 74-32,305 et seq. A member already holding a bachelor’s degree — and therefore outside this act — should ask about that one instead.
Known gapThe award percentage actually paid in the current year, and the Board of Regents application deadline dates, were not read this session.

Sources

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