Our program offers cadets the chance to receive an ROTC scholarship, which can cover their tuition costs up to 100%. Additionally, St. John's is one of the few universities in the nation to provide a housing grant that fully covers your housing expenses.  Also available to cadets is a minor in leadership.​
 

Army Values

​- Loyalty​

-Duty

-Respect

-Selfless Service

-Honor

-Integrity

-Personal Courage

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What is Army ROTC?

ROTC or Reserve Officer's Training Corp is an elective college course designed to train future Commissioned Officers in the United States Army. ROTC may be taken by any students during their freshman and sophomore years without any military obligation. By learning critical-thinking techniques, the value of character, competence, and courage, as well as self-discipline and team building, cadets strengthen their leadership capabilities. They are also involved in activities like physical fitness, orienteering, small-unit tactics, marksmanship, and leadership reaction courses. Following graduation from ROTC, cadets receive a Commission as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army.

 

Army ROTC Involvement​

1. Enrolled Cadet - Students fully participate in ROTC by taking the military science classes, physical fitness training, leadership labs, and field training. The government covers enrolled cadets for any injuries occurring during ROTC sanctioned training.  Unless under contract, enrolled cadets are NOT obligated to future military service.

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2. Contracted Cadet - Contracted cadets fully participate like other enrolled cadets, but they are also under obligation to future military service. Scholarship winners must contract to receive benefits. Non-scholarship cadets must contract prior to the MS III/junior year to continue in the program.

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Misconceptions about ROTC

• ROTC instruction is not the same as Army Basic Training. Cadets receive training in basic military skills, such as rifle marksmanship and small-unit tactics, but the emphasis is on applied leadership development and the practical aspects of managing resources and sustaining operations in dynamic organizations.  

 

• ​ROTC cadets do not enlist in the active Army. They remain full-time college students. Their service commitment begins shortly after graduation.

 

• ROTC cadets cannot be sent to war. They must obtain their four-year academic degree before they can receive a commission and then must complete their branch-specific officer basic course before assignment to a troop unit.

 

• Cadets do not major in ROTC. Military science courses are taken for elective credit. ROTC training does not take priority over academics. ROTC activities are kept to a minimum to allow cadets to focus on academics. Each cadet's college cumulative GPA constitutes 40% of his/her total evaluation while in ROTC.

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Service Obligation

Upon graduation, cadets are commissioned as Second Lieutenants and are required to serve for a period of eight years. How this obligation is fulfilled is determined by whether the student was a scholarship or non-scholarship cadet and whether the student serves on Active Duty or in the Reserves or National Guard.

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•  Those selected for Active Duty will typically serve 3 to 4 years full time, with the remaining 4 or 5 years in the inactive ready reserve (available for recall).

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• Those choosing or selected for the Reserves or National Guard, typically serve for 6 to 8 years part time in a drilling status (one weekend a month, plus two weeks per year, other than periods of active duty for training or mobilization); their remaining years of obligation, if any, can be served in the inactive reserve. 

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