What is a good college for Army ROTC?

[PC Maker]

By good, I mean something like well known or "hardcore." Good training for the real army and leadership positions there.

However, I'm not looking into a senior military college, such as West Point, the Citadel, etc. Just a normal college with a great ROTC program. Location for me would be anywhere but CA. I live in CA but it would be nice to see more. However, if any colleges here have good ROTC, I'll consider that.

I'm quite confident in my ability to make it -- my GT and ASVAB scores are pretty high, along with a 290 APFT score, Eagle scout, 2300 SAT, 3.9 GPA. I'm trying to get Infantry upon commission and volunteer for jump school during my time as a cadet. I'll take Ranger School after commission and assuming I pass and deploy and get promoted to 1LT, I'll take the SF Q-Course.

Basically, I'm looking for a college with ROTC that can prepare me better than most others for these things.

[OrakTheBold]

Hey PC Maker

Look at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico (http://www.nmmi.edu/index.htm). It is a junior College, and you can earn a commission in the US Army Reserve in two years. NMMI commissions more officers than any other school west of the Mississippi. As a junior in college, you will hold the rank of 2nd Lieutenant and can join a reserve or guard unit near your school and earn pay and gain experience. The top 10% of graduates from the institute are offered commissions in the regular army.

If you are going to go "hard-core," you will want a military-focused school, as ROTC in any other school you will feel cheated. There are many of them out there, do a search on the internet.

If you choose NMMI, you will attend ROTC Basic camp the summer between your HS senior year and college freshman year, attend ROTC III courses your freshman year, attend ROTC Advanced Camp between freshman and sophomore, then ROTC IV courses your sophomore year. The school always gets plenty of parachute slots, and even air assault and Ranger slots, however, If you are going Infantry anyway, you might want to wait until after you are commissioned, that way you get bonus pay; as a cadet, you don't get any pay. It's not mercenary to want to be paid, just practical.

Best of luck!

[MP US Army]

Not to burst your bubble but it doesn't matter. Just go to a school that you like.

The school will not make a good leader, you will do that.

Good Luck

[The Scorpion]

ROTC is weak no matter where you go IMO. If you want to do all that you describe above and do it well you will need the more hard-core style of West Point or The Citadel. The typical officer commissioned through ROTC barely knows how to execute a right face or render a proper salute, seriously.

[michael c]

Texas A&M has one of the best ROTC programs on Earth! It pains me to say that, I'm a huge Kansas fan. Kansas has a good ROTC program, the most attractive campus in the US and an awesome sports program. Go to KU.