Military Service Members and Veterans: A Profile of Those Enrolled in Undergraduate and Graduate Education in 2007-08. Statistics in Brief.

摘要

In this report, military students include veterans and military service members on active duty or in the reserves who were pursuing undergraduate or grad-uate studies.3 For context, military undergraduates were compared with the 45 percent of nonmilitary under-graduates most like them in terms of age and family responsibilities: nonmi-litary undergraduates who were independent (classified for federal aid purposes as financially independent of their parents on the basis of age, ma-rital status, and whether they had a dependent).4 (Ninety-seven percent of all military undergraduates were independent and thus military undergraduates were studied as a single group and not by dependency status.) Because all graduate students are classified as independent, all military graduate students were compared with all nonmilitary graduate students. This Statistics in Brief focuses on key demographic and enrollment characteristics because previous analyses have found that military and nonmilitary students often differ on such measures (Radford and Wun 2009).