Cooperative Education offers students a realistic way to explore and evaluate their interests, skills and career options while they earn academic credit and an appropriate salary. All students are encouraged to take advantage of the services of the Center as early as possible in their college experience. Most graduates who enter the Air Force through ROTC are assigned positions consistent with their academic major. Others, who wish to do so, may qualify to become pilots and navigators. Officers who qualify may take graduate training prior to beginning their military duties.
Scholarships are available to qualified students.
As of Fall 1997, Air Force ROTC is taught at Manhattan College, in Riverdale, and at the New York Institute of Technology, Central Islip campus, but is available to any student attending college in the Greater New York area. Students normally start this program as freshmen but may begin as sophomores by enrolling in both the freshman and sophomore year classes. Students not on scholarship may withdraw from the GMC at any time. Participants in the POC are selected from qualified volunteer applicants. This requirement is normally completed during the summer between the sophomore and junior years.