For those students who are transferring into the University, graduate students, and currently enrolled students who have not taken military science classes, but desire to be commissioned as a second lieutenant, a two year program is available. Students enter this program by applying for attendance to a four-week Leaders Training Course at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Attendance and successful completion of the Leaders Training Course is substituted for the Basic Course classes. The student is trained, fed, and housed at the expense of the government. The student also receives travel pay plus a salary of approximately $761. Contact the Department of Military Science for details. 

Veterans need only to complete the Advanced Course requirements while they are finishing the overall degree requirements in order to be eligible for a commission. 

Contracted students in the two-year program receive uniforms and a non-taxable subsistence allowance of $350 per month during the junior year and $400 per month during the senior year.