Post-9/11 GI Bill students may pursue accredited independent study programs at area career and technical education schools and postsecondary vocational institutions that provide education at the postsecondary level.
VA considers a course to be offered entirely by independent study when:
- it consists of a prescribed program of study with provision for interaction between the student and the regularly employed faculty of the institution. The interaction may be personally or through use of communications technology, including mail, telephone, videoconferencing, computer technology (to include electronic mail), and other electronic means;
- it is offered without any regularly scheduled, conventional classroom or laboratory sessions; and
- it is not a cooperative, farm cooperative, or correspondence course; and it does not meet the definition of undergraduate or graduate resident training.
VA considers a course to be offered in part by independent study when:
- it is not classified as a cooperative, farm cooperative, or correspondence course;
- it has some weeks when standard class sessions are scheduled; and
- it consists of independent study as defined above during those weeks when there are no regularly scheduled class sessions.