It'll cover community colleges just fine. Universities is where the issue arises.

Edit: The person above me said they went to a Community College in the midwest, but I have no idea how it cost them so much. I was attending in Fresno, California, and a full semester wouldn't even get close to 1k.

Well it's $2,000 per year, not per semester. Are semesters a year long in most vocational schools?

I guess this program would work for anyone who wanted to pursue a vocational program as a part-time student while slaving away in an Amazon warehouse. :O

Maybe if this actually works well people will be joining Amazon's workforce to pay for school instead of the military. Ha!

No need to be snarky! Community colleges are far from just vocational schools.

A lot of people who work warehouse-type jobs don't have any additional money available for school. This program is an incentive to attract people who are likely to stick around at Amazon while their education is paid for. It self-selects for people willing to work harder to get ahead and my anecdotal evidence is that tuition reimbursement increases company loyalty.

$2k/year may not seem like much, but when your only other option is to work yet another job to pay for the education, or not get the education at all, then it's a huge benefit.

I have always recommended that people take advantage of tuition reimbursement: the benefit is there, why not use it? There is typically no downside, other than you have less free time. The upsides are obvious.

Four years ago I went to a community college in the rural Midwest, and $2,000 a year would probably just barely cover tuition and books. And that was by far the cheapest school I have ever encountered.

Full time or part time? I assume anyone taking advantage of this would be going part time, so the tuition would be lower.

I'm not sure what those terms means, but I was taking around 15 credit hours per semester. I also had a part time job, so I don't know if you would call that "full time" school.

Full time in my University was >= 12 credit hours per semester.

At my school, "full time" meant 4 or 5 courses per term. "Part time" was 3, 2 or 1.Also there were three terms per year.

So if a credit hour is an hour of class per week. Our classes all had 3 hours per week, so 4 classes is 12 credit hours and 5 classes is 15 credit hours. That fits the bill.

I think I understand now. I just hadn't been thinking of it in terms of "credit hours".