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Ball State University Army ROTC has produced more than 600 graduates with military science minors and commissions as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army, Army National Guard, and U.S. Army Reserve.

Our students have majors from elementary education, nursing, physics, architecture, business, anthropology, construction management, exercise science, and industrial technology, to name a few. All fields of study come together to serve in the Profession of Arms, built upon the foundation of trust and the Army values.

Ball State University Army ROTC selects, educates, trains, and commissions college students to be officers and leaders of character in the Total Army; it instills the values of citizenship, national and community service, personal responsibility, and a sense of accomplishment in high school students.

Ball State University Army ROTC strives to become recognized as the premier commissioning source in developing critical-thinking leaders capable of operating in often ambiguous, complex, and uncertain military and civilian environments with a clear understanding and passion for service. Choosing to be a part of something bigger than themselves, these students become leaders and citizens of character, values, and the understanding of their role in service to this nation and its citizens.

After a seven-year absence, Army ROTC came to the campus in September 1978 and would begin as an extension center of the Indiana Institute of Technology (IIT), and Ball State has had active duty cadre assigned to it since the beginning of the 1979-80 academic year. Since its inception, Ball State Army ROTC enrollment has continued to grow, resulting in a role reversal. Ball State has become the host detachment, and IIT/IPFW are extension centers. 

The first professor of military science, Lt. Col. Donald. S. Bergin, arrived in July 1980, transferring all the administrative reporting responsibilities to Muncie, Indiana. Ball State Army ROTC was officially recognized as a department by the university on July 1, 1981, and appointed as an official host institution on September 9, 1981. 

Today, the Ball State Army ROTC is one of the largest programs in a five state area and continues the legacy dating back to 1918. 

Ball State Army University

Dept of Military Science

2000 West University, BG111

Muncie, Indiana 47306

 Office: 765-285-8341