Help for heroes

ASU offers numerous support services to more than 10,500 active duty service members, veterans and their family members enrolled at the university.

Serving veterans, service members and their families

When our nation’s men and women in uniform return to civilian life, they face brand-new battlefields. The transition can feel like culture shock, with civilian values and norms so different from those in the military. It’s a time of countless life-changing decisions, from reassessing goals and ambitions to choosing a career path to pursuing higher education. It may also be a pivotal time for recovery — from the psychological effects of traumatic experiences or injuries suffered in combat.

Arizona State University empowers veterans, service members and their families — at ASU and around the world — to succeed and thrive in this time of transition in their academic, professional and personal lives.

The university is a global leader in providing educational excellence at scale, both in person and online. ASU offers transformative educational experiences, including research and training opportunities, for the nation’s 1.3 million men and women serving on active duty, 826,000 in the National Guard or Reserves, millions of lifelong-learning veterans and their families. Services tailored to the needs of military and veteran students ensure a successful transition to academic life among a community of like-minded learners.

Through its charter, ASU takes responsibility not only for the well-being of its own students, but also the broader community of which it is a part. Through community partnerships and solutions-focused research, the university plays an active role in veteran suicide prevention and advances human performance science, a field that aids veterans recovering from injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. As a New American University reexamining and reshaping the very idea of what a university should be, ASU acts as a positive force to better our communities, state and nation.