Resources

• Academic Advising - Academic Advising offers guidance throughout your undergraduate years, assisting with course selection, majors, pre-professional paths, research opportunities, and more.
• CareerEd - Stanford Career Education helps students and alumni find fulfilling careers through coaching, programs, courses, and campus partnerships.
• Financial Aid - Meeting the cost of undergrad is a big investment. Stanford offers need-based aid to make attendance possible for admitted students. Graduate funding varies by merit, need, course, or degree, mostly through departments, outside agencies, or governments.
• Graduate Life Office (GLO) - GLO helps with personal issues, roommate problems, family and health concerns, academic challenges, financial difficulties, and practical questions about campus and community life. They can refer you to appropriate support services across campus.
• Office of Accessible Education (OAE) - The Office of Accessible Education (OAE) aims to create an accessible, inclusive environment for students with disabilities. By providing academic and housing accommodations, we address barriers and support students to reach their full academic potential.
• Student Housing - Student Housing offers a home for eligible graduate and undergraduate students, including couples and students with children. On-campus living provides many opportunities to meet people and build friendships. Student veterans usually live in graduate housing.
• VA Education Benefits - Stanford supports student veterans and their families. Students using the GI Bill®, Veteran Readiness and Employment, or funded by the Department of Defense on active duty must coordinate with the VA Certification Officer to submit all documents before enrollment can be certified. Students can contact the VA Certification Officer for guidance on applying for educational benefits.
• Vaden Health Services - Vaden Health Services is the first stop for diagnosis, treatment, preventive counseling, and education.

• American Red Cross - Offers confidential support to veterans and families, connecting them to local and national resources via chapters and military offices worldwide. VA Palo Alto Health Care System has inpatient facilities in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Livermore, and outpatient clinics in several cities, offering services like surgery, mental health, and physical therapy. The nearest VA hospitals to Stanford are in Palo Alto and Menlo Park.
• Enrolling in VA Health Care - Offers various services like surgery, critical care, mental health, orthopedics, pharmacy, radiology, and physical therapy. The nearest VA hospitals to Stanford are in Palo Alto and Menlo Park.
• Disabled American Veterans (DAV) - A nonprofit supporting veterans and families, helping over 1 million annually with VA benefits and disability claims.
• Military Onesource - A Department of Defense program, provides free 24/7 support for active-duty and reserve members and families, including counseling, financial advice, education, and relocation services.
• Peninsula Vet Center - Offers community-based counseling for veterans, families, and military-related issues, plus outreach, education, and referrals.
• Project 9 Line - Supports veterans, including those with PTSD, through networking, workshops, and storytelling via arts and activities.
• Service2School (S2S) - A nonprofit helping veterans apply to college and grad school through free counseling, aiding informed decisions.
• VA Military Sexual Trauma Resources - Address MST, defined as unwanted sexual activity experienced during military service, regardless of gender. VA offers support, treatment, and resources to cope with MST's effects.
• Veterans Crisis Line - Provides free, confidential help to all veterans, even if not VA enrolled, with follow-up from local coordinators. Many responders are veterans.
• Warrior Canine Connection - Uses a trauma recovery model to help combat-stressed warriors reconnect with families, communities, and life. By working with dogs from pupp

If you are a qualifying veteran, you may be eligible for educational benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) through one of several VA programs. Military dependents may also be eligible if education benefits have been transferred to them. In all cases, the decision to use your benefits or to save them for graduate school, for example, is a personal one and we encourage you to consider all of your options. Instructions for activating VA educational benefits for enrollment at Stanford can be found at VA Education Benefits. 

Learn more about the VA Benefits and the Yellow Ribbon Program