For-Profit Schools Jump To Enroll Military Spouses

By Christine Armario


MIAMI -- "Unleash the dog trainer inside you," urges an ad for the online Animal Behavior College, which makes no bones about whom it's trying to recruit. In television and online ads, it speaks directly to military spouses. The message: You may be able to attend for free.

The ads are working. In three years, 2,255 military spouses have enrolled, and the college has collected more than $2.7 million in taxpayer-funded spousal education benefits from the Pentagon -- among the most of any school in a program called the Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts, or MyCAA.