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Texas National Guard State Tuition Assistance
Up to $10,000 a semester in tuition and mandatory fees for a drilling member of the Texas Army or Air National Guard or the Texas State Guard. Competitive and appropriated, not an entitlement.
Verified August 17, 2026
What this benefit is
Up to $10,000 a semester in tuition and mandatory fees for a drilling member of the Texas Army or Air National Guard or the Texas State Guard. Competitive and appropriated, not an entitlement.
What it's worth: Up to $10,000 per fall and spring semester
- Shown as a range and excluded from your annual total: the programme is appropriated annually and awarded on funding availability and demonstrated financial need, so it is not an entitlement.
- Covers up to 12 hours of tuition and mandatory fees, for up to 5 years or 10 academic semesters.
- The Texas State Guard has a statutory allocation of 30 slots per semester, so competition there is much tighter.
Who is entitled to it
- You are a drilling member of the Texas Military Department.
- You have completed initial training.
- You are enrolled at an accredited non-profit Texas institution.
- Your home is in Texas.
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 each semester — early January for spring- 1Check the current semester deadline on the Texas Military Department site — it falls weeks before the term starts.
- 2Make sure your unit has not flagged you; a flag disqualifies the application outright.
- 3Apply through the Texas Military Department, not through your school.
- File with
- Texas Military Department
- Documents you will need
- proof of guard membership · enrolment verification
- Apply each term
- Re-apply every semester. Missing the deadline forfeits that semester entirely.
Worth knowingThis is a serving-member benefit, not a veteran one, and it stacks with federal Tuition Assistance rather than replacing it. It is in this corpus because a Guard member reading a Texas veteran benefits page will not find it anywhere else.
Known gapAward amounts and slot counts are set by appropriation and change between sessions. We publish the range the department currently states and label it illustrative rather than computing a figure.
Sources
- authority · published policyTexas Military Department — State Tuition Assistance Program
- operating · published policyTexas A&M International University — Texas State Tuition Assistance (National Guard)
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