Table B-26.  Active Component Commissioned Officer Gains and Corps, FY18: by Service and Education
  SERVICE
ARMY NAVY MARINE CORPS AIR FORCE TOTAL DoD
EDUCATION            #          %         #        %          #          %        #           %           #            %
Officer Gains1    
Males and Females
Less than 4-year college graduate 1,147 17.22 2 0.05 62 3.96 268 5.37 1,479 8.55
4-year college graduate 4,593 68.94 22 0.54 1,450 92.71 1,451 29.07 7,516 43.45
Greater than 4-year college graduate 873 13.10 17 0.42 22 1.41 397 7.95 1,309 7.57
Unknown 49 0.74 4,038 98.99 30 1.92 2,876 57.61 6,993 40.43
TOTAL 6,662 100   4,079 100   1,564 100   4,992 100   17,297 100
Males
Less than 4-year college graduate 932 13.99 1 0.02 59 3.77 208 4.17 1,200 6.94
4-year college graduate 3,578 53.71 16 0.39 1,298 82.99 1,164 23.32 6,056 35.01
Greater than 4-year college graduate 606 9.10 16 0.39 12 0.77 264 5.29 898 5.19
Unknown 35 0.53 3,049 74.75 28 1.79 2,089 41.85 5,201 30.07
TOTAL 5,151 77.32   3,082 75.56   1,397 89.32   3,725 74.62   13,355 77.21
Females
Less than 4-year college graduate 215 3.23 1 0.02 3 0.19 60 1.20 279 1.61
4-year college graduate 1,015 15.24 6 0.15 152 9.72 287 5.75 1,460 8.44
Greater than 4-year college graduate 267 4.01 1 0.02 10 0.64 133 2.66 411 2.38
Unknown 14 0.21 989 24.25 2 0.13 787 15.77 1,792 10.36
TOTAL 1,511 22.68   997 24.44   167 10.68   1,267 25.38   3,942 22.79
  SERVICE
ARMY NAVY MARINE CORPS AIR FORCE TOTAL DoD
EDUCATION            #          %         #        %          #          %        #           %           #            %
Officer Corps 2
Males and Females
Less than 4-year college graduate 1,786 2.29 641 1.21 1,101 5.74 280 0.45 3,808 1.79
4-year college graduate 41,482 53.15 15,415 29.08 13,702 71.43 25,073 40.03 95,672 44.94
Greater than 4-year college graduate 34,696 44.46 20,129 37.98 3,821 19.92 35,130 56.08 93,776 44.05
Unknown 82 0.11 16,817 31.73 558 2.91 2,157 3.44 19,614 9.21
TOTAL 78,046 100   53,002 100   19,182 100   62,640 100   212,870 100
Males
Less than 4-year college graduate 1,449 1.86 563 1.06 1,009 5.26 200 0.32 3,221 1.51
4-year college graduate 33,987 43.55 12,150 22.92 12,620 65.79 19,960 31.86 78,717 36.98
Greater than 4-year college graduate 27,743 35.55 16,662 31.44 3,517 18.33 27,763 44.32 75,685 35.55
Unknown 66 0.08 13,380 25.24 508 2.65 1,421 2.27 15,375 7.22
TOTAL 63,245 81.04   42,755 80.67   17,654 92.03   49,344 78.77   172,998 81.27
Females
Less than 4-year college graduate 337 0.43 78 0.15 92 0.48 80 0.13 587 0.28
4-year college graduate 7,495 9.60 3,265 6.16 1,082 5.64 5,113 8.16 16,955 7.96
Greater than 4-year college graduate 6,953 8.91 3,467 6.54 304 1.58 7,367 11.76 18,091 8.50
Unknown 16 0.02 3,437 6.48 50 0.26 736 1.17 4,239 1.99
TOTAL 14,801 18.96   10,247 19.33   1,528 7.97   13,296 21.23   39,872 18.73
     
1. Officer gains reflect an addition to the officer ranks between 1 October 2017 and 30 September 2018.  This addition can reflect a new accession, a movement from another component, or the return of the officer to the same component.  The OSD definition of an officer gain is a transaction in a database that reflects the addition of an SSN that was not in the previous file.
2. Officer corps reflects commissioned officers serving as of 30 September 2018.
Note: The data from the Services used to populate the "Gains" portion of this table appear to be inaccurate and are not reliable.  Efforts are underway to improve the quality and accuracy of the data in the future.  The data referencing the education level of the Officer Corps appear to be accurate and are to be considered a reliable data source for this topic.
Rows and columns may not add to totals due to rounding.
Military data are provided by the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC).