The details of your veteran education benefits can be complex and confusing. We have provided some information below, but please feel free to contact the UMSL Veterans Center to review your eligibility, how to utilize your benefits, and any limitations that may apply.
Contact us at 314-516-5705 or VeteransOffice@umsl.edu
VA Educational Benefits
- Up to 100% of tuition and fees paid directly to the school for 36 months. Percentage is based on your total length of service (see chart).
- Book & Supply Stipend is paid directly to you ($41.67 per credit hour up to $1,000 per year).
- Prorated by your total length of service percentage.
- Monthly housing stipend is based on the BAH rate for an "E-5 with dependents"
- Stipend is is prorated by your total length of service percentage and paid directly to you at the beginning of each month for the previous month.
- Active duty personnel and their spouses utilizing transferred entitlement are not eligible for the housing allowance.
- Rate of pursuit must be more than 50% (i.e. you must be enrolled in 7 or more credit hours for undergraduate coursework or 5 or more credit hours for graduate coursework) in order to receive the housing stipend.
- For online-only students, the housing stipend is paid at half of the national average.
Qualifying Service
- 36 months = 100%
- 30 Months = 90%
- 24 months = 80%
- 18 months = 70%
- 6 months = 60%
- 90 days= 50%
- Available to veterans with service-connected disabilities of 10% or more.
- Must apply and be accepted by VR&E services
- Program pays 100% of tuition and fees directly to the school for up to 48 months
- Required books and supplies are also covered by the VA.
- Program also includes a monthly housing stipend.
- Survivors and Dependents assistance provides education and training opportunities to eligible dependents of veterans who are permanently and totally disabled due to a service-related condition or eligible dependents of veterans who died while on active duty or as a result of a service-related condition.
- Up to 45 months of entitlement paid directly to the student.
Chapter 35: Survivors and Dependents Educational Assistance Program (DEA)
- Reservists with no deployments and a 6-year obligation
- Up to 36 months of benefits
- Must have completed basic training and advanced individual training (AIT) to receive Chapter 1606 benefits
- Eligible for tuition assistance after Advanced Individual Training/Tech School.
Chapter 1606: Montgomery GI Bill® - Selected Reserve (MGIB-SR)
- To be eligible, you must have served 36 months on active duty and received an honorable discharge.
- Monthly entitlement is paid directly to the student for up to 36 months. Student must pay tuition and fees to the University from this stipend.
- Additional 12 months of Chapter 33 after exhaustion of Chapter 30 benefits.