Military Students
You’ve served our country. Now it’s our turn to serve you.
Military Students
As a veteran attending PTC, you’ll benefit from a career-focused, hands-on education from day one. Our Career Services department will provide guidance when you need help finding work—whether it’s been 10 days since you graduated or 10 years.
We take great pride in supporting you, and offer a range of resources that can help to ensure that your academic and professional careers are a success.
Pittsburgh Technical College has earned our best-in-class 2023 Best for Vets ranking from Military Times because of our programs and support services that help our military students use their education benefits. This means that you get in, get out, and into a fulfilling career you love, when you begin your education at PTC.
Military-friendly resources and benefits
We strive to make it easy to understand your military education benefits. Your enrollment coordinator and financial aid counselor will help you tap into the benefits you and your family have earned for your service.
Here are highlights of our support services and what you can expect during your education at PTC:
- Some PTC programs are offered fully online, making it possible to earn your degree or certificate regardless of where you are stationed or deployed.
- Some evening programs are a blend of on-ground and online classes giving campus-based students an added element of flexibility.
- PTC provides a generous deployment policy should you be called to active duty and welcomes your return when orders permit.
- As a year-round student you move through your program faster.
- A DANTES affiliated school.
- Vocational rehabilitation education approved.
- VA benefit approved.
- A member of the Department of Defense Voluntary Education Partnership Memorandum of Understanding (DoD MOU) Program.
- CLEP and DSST exam credit for transferring students.
- Participant in the Yellow Ribbon Program.
- MyCAA approved for financial aid to military spouses.
- An exclusive lounge for our military students.
Veterans Benefits and Transaction Act
In accordance with the Veterans Benefits and Transition Act of 2018, PTC will permit all Covered Individuals (students receiving a Ch. 33 Post 9/11 GI Bill®, or Ch. 31 Voc-Rehab benefits) to attend or participate in the course of education during the period beginning on the date in which the Covered Individual provides to PTC a Certificate of Eligibility* for entitlement to educational assistance under 38 U.S. Code, Chapter 31 or 33 and ending on the earlier of the following dates:
- The date on which payment from VA is made to the institution
- 90 days after the date the institution certified tuition and fees following the receipt of the certificate of eligibility.
PTC will not impose any penalty, including the assessment of late fees, the denial of access to classes, libraries, or other institutional facilities, or the requirement that a covered individual borrow additional funds, on any covered individual because of that person’s inability to meet his or her financial obligations to the institution due to the delayed disbursement funding from the VA.
PTC may require Chapter 31 or 33 students to take the following actions:
- Submit a certificate of eligibility for entitlement to educational assistance no later than the first day of a course of education, and/or
- Submit a written request to use such entitlement, and/or
- Provide additional information necessary to the proper certification of enrollment by PTC, and/or
- Require additional payment or impose a fee for the amount that is the difference between the amount of the student’s financial obligation and the amount of the VA education benefit disbursement.
* The Certificate of Eligibility may also include a Statement of Benefits obtained from the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA) website e-Benefits, or a VAF 28-1905 form for Chapter 31 authorization purposes.
“GI Bill®” is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). More information about education benefits offered by VA is available at the official U.S. government website at www.benefits.va.gov/gibill.