In AROTC you can enroll in ROTC participate fully and depending on the amount of scholarships available and the competition within the battalion (many variables there, speak to ROO and HR at individual battalions for details) you can be awarded a 3, 3.5 or 4 year scholarship. My DS was awarded a 4 year campus based scholarship and contracted December of his first semester at college. We even received reimbursement for tuition that first semester. The Navy has a similar program but it is a national pool of applicants. If you enroll in NROTC you can be considered for a scholarship as a "college programmer." However, the cadre while making a recommendation do not make the final decision. If you do not enroll in NROTC as a freshman I believe you can reapply for the national NROTC scholarship (check me on that Kinnem). To sum up, yes, but in AROTC you will be competing with others within your battalion and the more scholarships your battalion has to offer the better, in NROTC it is a national competition. One more thing, in AROTC your choice of major is not as big a factor as NROTC. STEM majors have/had a MAJOR advantage in NROTC, AROTC is moving in that direction but not quite like the Navy's tier system. Ask PIMA about how AFROTC works...