V-12 Navy College Training Program

Numerous participants attended classes and lectures at their respective colleges and earned completion degrees for their studies.

Once enrollees completed their V-12-subsidized bachelor's degree programs, their next step toward obtaining a commission depended on the service branch:[1] Navy Marines When the United States entered the Second World War, American colleges and universities suffered huge enrollment declines.

[4] Depending on the V-12 enrollees' past college curriculum, they were enrolled in three school terms, or semesters, which lasted four months each.

[1] Richard Barrett Lowe, future Governor of Guam and American Samoa, was one of its early commanding officers.

Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs, May 14, 1943[1]The V-12 program was economically and functionally beneficial to undergraduate colleges and universities in maintaining enrollments during a general mobilization of manpower for the war, and also met and exceeded the critical needs of the military.

[6] After the V-12 Program got underway on July 1, 1943, public and private college enrollment increased by 100,000 participants, helping reverse the sharp wartime downward trend.