Army Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC)

Admission
Training Allowances and Service Obligation
Army ROTC Course Requirements

The general objective of Army ROTC is to provide junior officers who by their education, training and inherent qualities, are suitable for continued development as officers in the United States Army. The aim is to provide a basic military education, and in conjunction with other college disciplines, to develop individual character attributes essential to a professional military officer.

The Army ROTC advanced course includes four semesters of instruction on campus and five weeks of summer camp at a military installation, normally at the end of the junior year. During each semester, cadets are required to participate in one weekend field training exercise at a military reservation.

Admission

Army ROTC basic courses are open to all UF students. It is an elective offered by the Department of Military Science in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. To take advanced courses, however, students must qualify medically, be U.S. citizens, want a commission and have a 2.0 GPA no criminal record and demonstrated leadership qualities.

Each student applicant for the advanced course must have either completed the Army ROTC Basic Course, attended a basic ROTC summer camp of five weeks or participated in equivalent military training. Cadets who have successfully completed at least two years of Junior ROTC may be granted a waiver of the first two semesters of the basic course upon approval of the Professor of Military Science. Final selection of students for the advanced course is made by the professor of military science.

Training Allowances and Service Obligation

Each student receives from the United States government a monetary subsistence allowance, presently $200 per month, paid during the period of enrollment in the advanced course for not more than a total of 20 months. Students are paid for their travel to and from the five-week summer camp. While at camp they are provided quarters, rations and one-half of a second lieutenant's pay per month. Qualified cadets may be eligible to serve as drilling members of reserve component units, in the pay grade of E-5 or higher, under the Simultaneous Membership Program. Upon the student's successful completion of the advanced course, the cadet is commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Army.

Outstanding advanced course cadets may be selected to attend airborne, air assault, northern warfare or military mountaineering training courses. Several cadets are offered the opportunity to serve in leadership positions in active Army units immediately following advanced camp under the Cadet Troop Leadership Training Program. This program includes an opportunity for selected cadets to travel and serve in Germany or Korea. Prior to commissioning, students must take and pass one semester of the following courses: military history, English composition and computer literacy in order to complete the professional military education program requirements.

Army ROTC Course Requirements

In order to be eligible for a commission in the Army, each student must complete the necessary courses as directed by their respective college for a degree and complete or receive credit for the following Army ROTC courses.

There are no prerequisites for any course. Students not attending UF on an Army ROTC scholarship may take the 1000 and 2000 level courses as non-obligation electives. ROTC scholarships and military service options are discussed in class. All 3000 and 4000 level courses are intended for advanced ROTC cadets and students having prior military training. Acceptance into these courses requires the approval of the Professor of Military Science.