Casper College receives Military Friendly Gold and Spouse Friendly designated rankings
Casper College has been named to the 2025-2026 Military Friendly® Schools list as a Gold Award recipient. The college has also been designated a 2025-2026 Military Spouse Friendly School. The lists, compiled by Victory Media, Inc., honor those colleges, universities, and trade schools that are doing the most to embrace America’s military service members, veterans, and spouses as students and ensure their success on campus.
According to Victory Media, institutions earning the Military Friendly School designation were evaluated using public data sources and responses from a proprietary survey. Over 2,000 schools participated in the 2025-2026 survey, with 756 earning special awards for exceeding the standard.
Schools that receive the Gold Award represent overall survey scores that fall 41% or score at or above .41 and have five or more qualifying benchmarks. Casper College is the only school in Wyoming to receive any awards or designations for the 2025-2026 year. Community colleges were categorized as “small” or “large.” A total of 232 community colleges earned the Military Friendly designation.
“These military-friendly designations distinguish Casper College as a school that provides ample opportunity and support for veterans and their spouses. They are a testament to the care and service we are proud to provide to our veteran students and their families after they’ve sacrificed so much for us,” said Chelse DePaolo-Lara, associate vice president for enrollment management.
The list of Military Friendly Schools and Military Spouse Friendly Schools ratings were assessed through methodology, criteria, and weightings were determined by Viqtory with input from the Military Friendly Advisory Council of independent leaders in the higher education and military recruitment community. Final ratings were determined by combining each institution’s survey scores with the assessment of the institution’s ability to meet thresholds for student retention, graduation, job placement, loan repayment, degree advancement or transfer, and loan default rates for all students and, specifically, for student veterans.