The US Air Force values education. Indeed, most of our officers participate in continuing education or ongoing training. In some cases, officers are sent to school full-time as an active duty assignment to the Air Force’s own Graduate School for Engineering and Management located at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Through this program, part of the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), officers can advance their careers with a Master’s degree or Ph.D. in one of more than 20 areas of specialization. For specializations not available at AFIT, officers may be sent to pursue a degree at civilian institutions of higher learning including world-renowned universities and state colleges.
 
AFIT provides graduate education opportunities at its resident graduate school and supervises Air Force officers enrolled elsewhere through its Civilian Institutions Program. The Graduate School of Engineering and Management is among the nation’s top engineering schools and provides advanced education, research, and consultation focused on defense technology. AFIT’s Civilian Institution Program places students in more than 400 civilian universities, research centers, hospitals, and industrial organizations throughout the United States and in several other countries.

The AFIT Center for Cyberspace Research (CCR) conducts defense-focused research at the graduate level. The Center is forward-looking and responsive to the changing educational and research needs of the Air Force, the Department of Defense and the federal government. CCR is helping to train and equip the warriors of the future for the cyber domain. Download the AFIT and CCR press release.