There’s over 120,000 students attending school somewhere in the Texas A&M University System.
With that number in mind, over 6,000 students who are veterans and dependents may not sound like much. But that segment has doubled in the last year and a half.
The System’s Board of Regents was happy to hear special advisor Jay Kimbrough talk about what’s being done to continue growing that segment.
Jay Kimbrough on growing military enrollment.
Kimbrough says veterans have the best college benefits they’ve ever had.
Kimbrough on G-I bill.
Kimbrough says a challenge is increasing the veterans graduation rate of 20 percent.
Kimbrough on increasing graduation rate.
Kimbrough says the system has hooked up with a program offered by the Marines to bring more vets into the A&M system.
Kimbrough comments on Marines program.
On the flagship campus, Kimbrough says 1,400 vets are in enrolled, up from 600 a year and a half ago.