Palm Beach Atlantic University

ROTC PROGRAM

The Rinker School of Business at Palm Beach Atlantic University offers a minor in Military Science, which accommodates the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC).

ROTC is a college elective that concentrates on extensive leadership development, management, professional ethics, problem solving, fitness and preliminary military skills. The life-long competencies acquired assist students after graduation in their desired military career, or in a career as a civilian. The ROTC program at PBA, in operation for more than three years, currently has more than a dozen students in various majors. Classes and labs for cadets are hosted at Florida Atlantic University and Florida International University in Miami.
 

Your Opportunities

This program has proven its unparalleled value to students long after graduation and well into their desired career, whether civilian or military. ROTC is an elective course that is taken each semester of college, and upon completion of the program requirements and awarding of a bachelor’s degree (or graduate degree), the student is commissioned as an Officer in the active army, Reserves or National Guard.

Students interested in ROTC, but not ready to make a commitment, may take classes as freshmen and/or sophomores and incur no military obligation. Students entering their junior year or about to begin a two-year graduate program in the fall of an academic year may spend five weeks in summer training at the Leaders Training Course in Fort Knox, Kentucky. In that program, students learn skills normally taught in the first two years of ROTC, earn pay, and then without obligation, make a decision about ROTC and the Army.

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Speaking of PBA...

"I’m definitely very excited to finally start my career in the Army." -- Joseph Puccio, '11. He earned a bachelor's degree in Biology, with a minor in Military Science. He is one of the first two graduates of the University’s ROTC program.