Eligibility Requirements

1. Must be a citizen of the United States and present official certified proof of citizenship.
   
   Note:
   Scholarship selectees must be a U.S. Citizen in order to activate the scholarship.
   
   Scholarship selectee must obtain their U.S. citizenship and activate their scholarship within the first academic year after the stated scholarship offer begin date listed in their scholarship notification letter or their scholarship offer will be rescinded.
   
   Retroactive benefits will not be approved for those selectees who delayed activating their scholarship due to not obtaining their U.S. citizenship.
   
   Applicants with dual citizenship may apply and, if selected, activate their scholarship but must renounce their citizenship to the other country and surrender the passport for that country in order to continue in the Navy ROTC Program.
2. Applicants for the Scholarship Program must be not less than 17 years old and not yet 23 by September 1 of the year starting college and must not have reached 27th birthday upon graduation and commissioning. Applicants with prior military service may be eligible for age adjustments for amount of time equal to their prior service, on a month-by-month basis, for a maximum of 36 months, if they will not reach their 29th birthday upon Commissioning.
3. No moral obligations or personal convictions that prevent conscientious bearing of arms and supporting and defending the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic or to taking an oath to perform such acts.
4. Applicants must have no criminal record of military or civilian offenses pending or federal convictions.
5. High school graduation or equivalency certificate by August 1 of year of entrance into four-year Navy ROTC Scholarship program.
6. Applicants must be medically qualified by Navy or Marine Corps standards.
7. Applicants must not have any body piercing or tattoos that violate Navy or Marine Corps policy.

Summer Training Requirements

Scholarship students go on summer training for up to 30 days during each of their three college summers. The first summer training includes exposure to aviation, submarine, surface, and amphibious specialties both ashore and afloat. The second summer is at-sea training aboard operational U.S. Navy ships. During the third summer candidates train aboard operational ships or aviation squadrons, nurse midshipmen train at a Navy hospital, and Marine Corps candidates train at U.S. Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Virginia. The Navy provides transportation to and from sites, subsistence and living quarters, and training pay during the summer training periods.