Sidebar: Right steps for tuition assistance Published March 15, 2008 WHITEMAN AIR FORCE BASE, Mo -- Tuition assistance will be reimbursed at the following rate: Undergraduate Degree The basic benefit offers 100 percent not to exceed $250.00 per semester hour or $166.66 per quarter hour, with a maximum cumulative benefit not to exceed $4,500.00, per member, per fiscal year. Note: This includes students who already have a degree(s) and are pursuing a CCAF degree or Teacher Certification. Master's Degree The basic benefit offers 75 percent not to exceed $187.50 per semester hour or $125.00 per quarter hour with a maximum cumulative benefit not to exceed $4,500.00, per member, per fiscal year. Note: AFRC Students are authorized reserve TA for a "civilian" Master's Degree if their only Master's Degree was awarded due to completion of a degree-granting PME course (such as Air War College, Air Command and Staff College, etc). Students who want to take graduate degree courses after completion of an undergraduate program during the same FY, and have not capped under the undergraduate program, will only have a maximum cumulative benefit of $4,500 between the two programs.