Hawai'i Pacific University Recognized as Military-Friendly School by GI Jobs

Every year, GI Jobs releases a Top Military-Friendly Schools list commemorating military-friendly colleges and universities across the United States. Hawai'i Pacific University was recognized in GI Jobs Top Military-Friendly Schools of 2010, a prestige in the military education community.

In order to make the cut for the GI Jobs magazine's list, honorary schools must be in the top 15% of all colleges, universities, and trade schools nationwide for America's military veteran, reserve, and active duty students.

Hawai'i Pacific University provides military veteran, reserve, and active duty students classes through the Military Campus Programs on all Oahu military installations. There is also the downtown HPU campus, windward Hawai'i Loa campus, affiliate college Oceanic Institute, and a wide variety of distance learning programs that may be taken with the student around the globe. Accredited programs include a Master in Business Administration degree with five different concentrations, and a Master of Arts in Organizational Change program.

This is just the beginning of GI Jobs determining Hawai'i Pacific University as a military-friendly school, though. Part of the criteria for making the Military-Friendly Schools of 2010 list includes efforts to not only recruit military and veteran students, but to retain them throughout their educational career; this consistency demonstrates satisfaction in the military education programs.

Schools on the list also must offer additional benefits to veteran, reserve, and active duty students, including on-campus veteran programs, credits for service, military spouse programs, and more. Lastly, the list mandates that all schools have accreditation.

The GI Jobs magazine's Top Military-Friendly Schools of 2010 will be published in September 2009. "This list is especially important now because the recently enacted Post-9/11 GI Bill has given veterans virtually unlimited financial means to go to school," said Rich McCormack, G.I. Jobs publisher. "Veterans can now enroll in any school, provided they are academically qualified. So schools are clamoring around for them like never before. Veterans need a trusted friend to help them decide where to get educated. The Military Friendly Schools list is that trusted friend."

Hawai'i Pacific University is the state's largest private university with more than 8,000 students from all fifty states and over 100 countries. HPU is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, one of the six major regional accreditation agencies found throughout the world, as well as the Council on Social Work Education and the National League for Nursing Accreditation Commission. More information about HPU's military friendly programs, such as its online MBA degree and online Master of Arts in Organizational Change can be found at http://online.hpu.edu.