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National Guard State Tuition Assistance — Tuition Only for 2025-26

Undergraduate tuition funding for a serving Oregon National Guard member at an Oregon institution, up to 90 community college credits or 180 quarter credits elsewhere. For 2025-26 the agency states awards are based on tuition costs only — fees and book allowances are not covered.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

Undergraduate tuition funding for a serving Oregon National Guard member at an Oregon institution, up to 90 community college credits or 180 quarter credits elsewhere. For 2025-26 the agency states awards are based on tuition costs only — fees and book allowances are not covered.

What it's worth: Undergraduate tuition, up to 90 community college credits or 180 quarter credits

  • The department describes the programme as funding 100% of tuition at no more than the state residency rate.
  • The student aid agency states that for 2025-26, due to budgetary considerations, awards are based on tuition costs only, and fee costs and book allowances are not covered.
  • At an eligible private institution the award is calculated on the average in-state rate among the seven public universities, not to exceed $274 per credit in 2026-27.

Who is entitled to it

  • The assistance runs to the serving member.
  • Your home is in Oregon.

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: Fall semester 3 August 2026, fall quarter 1 September 2026, winter/spring semester 1 December 2026, spring quarter 1 March 2027
  1. 1Submit the FAFSA as well as the application. An application without a processed FAFSA for the year is not complete.
  2. 2Diary the deadline for your own calendar type. Semester and quarter institutions have different dates, and the fall semester date falls in early August.
  3. 3Do not budget for books or fees this year. The agency states the award is tuition costs only for 2025-26.
  4. 4Check the three verification steps will clear: completeness and FAFSA, then military eligibility through the Army or Air Guard education office, then academic eligibility and prior credit count at the school.
  5. 5Watch the credit ceiling — 90 credits at a community college, or 180 quarter credits at a public university or eligible private institution.
  6. 6Note the bar on holders of a bachelor’s degree or higher, and on anyone in default on a federal student loan.
Form
The state tuition assistance application in the student aid profile, plus the FAFSA
File with
Office of Student Access and Completion
Each term
Claimed per academic term.
CorrectionThe two state pages describe different benefits. The veterans department describes 100% of tuition; the student aid agency adds that for 2025-26 fees and book allowances are not being paid at all. Plan against the narrower, more recent statement.
Worth knowingThe private-institution award is capped by reference to the public universities’ average in-state rate. A private tuition bill well above that leaves a gap the member pays.

Sources

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