MILITARY JUNIOR COLLEGES

Five institutions are considered Military junior colleges.. These five schools participate in the Army's two-year Early Commissioning Program (ECP), an Army ROTC program in which qualified students can earn a commission as a Second Lieutenant after only two years of college. The five Military Junior Colleges are:

• Wentworth Military Academy and College, Lexington, Missouri
• Valley Forge Military Academy, Wayne, Pennsylvania
• New Mexico Military Institute, Roswell, New Mexico
• Marion Military Institute, Marion, Alabama
• Georgia Military College, Milledgeville, Georgia

MILITARY SENIOR COLLEGES

Public Senior Military College

• Virginia Military Institute (Lexington, Virginia four-year public college)

Public Senior Military Colleges Which Also Enroll Civilian Students

• North Georgia College and State University (Dahlonega, Georgia; four-year public university)
• Texas A&M University (College Station, Texas; four-year public university)
• The Citadel,  The Military College of South Carolina (Charleston, South Carolina; four-year public college)
• Virginia Polytech Institute and State University (Blacksburg, Virginia; four-year public university)

MARITIME COLLEGES

Students at these academies are organized as military academy cadets, and graduate with appropriate licenses from the U.S. Coast Guard and/or U.S. Merchant Marine, with an option to become commissioned reserve officers with the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, or the U.S. Marine Corps.

• California Maritime Academy
• Great Lakes Maritime Academy a division of Northwestern Michigan College
• State University of New York Maritime College
• Maine Maritime Academy
• Massachusetts Maritime Academy
• United States Merchant Marine Academy
• Texas Maritime Academy, a division of Texas A&M University at Galveston