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Utica College Again Named "Military Friendly" School

Makes "GI Jobs" List for Second Consecutive Year

Written By Miranda McKee '11, PR Intern

Contact - cleogrande@utica.edu

Utica, NY (08/16/2010) - For the second year in a row, Utica College has received the honor of being named one of America’s Military Friendly Schools by G.I. Jobs magazine. The 2011 list of schools honors the top 15 percent of institutions, ranging from state universities and private colleges to community colleges and trade schools, which are doing the most to embrace America’s veterans as students.

UC is among 1,220 selected schools that make it a priority to recruit students with military experience. G.I. Jobs compiled the list after it polled more than 7,000 schools nationwide. Criteria for making the Military Friendly Schools list included efforts to recruit and retain military and veteran students, results in recruiting military and veteran students and academic accreditations.

Utica College has partnered with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide new educational benefits to veterans as part of the Yellow Ribbon Program, made possible through the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008. The tens of billions of dollars in tuition money now available because of the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill last year has intensified an already strong desire by colleges to court veterans into their classrooms.

The 2011 Military Friendly Schools list can be found at www.militaryfriendlyschools.com/2011list.

About Utica College – Utica College, founded in 1946, is a comprehensive private institution offering bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. The College, located in upstate central New York, approximately 90 miles west of Albany and 50 miles east of Syracuse, currently enrolls more than 3,200 students in 37 undergraduate majors, 27 minors, 21 master’s and two doctoral degree programs.
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