VHA VANEEP/other education programs

I'm currently in the VANEEP program with the Alaska VA. I applied last July 2009, and received notification of my acceptance in September 2009 right before I went on maternity leave. Suffice it to say, the nurse education manager was awesome at getting all my stuff together. I completed the forms she gave me, and she pretty took care of everything else since it needed to go through a board locally (not sure if this is VHA wide SOP, but we have a board of nurses that approve VANEEP applicants before they are sent off).

It is a great program, and after I graduate I will owe the VA 3 years of service, which is perfectly reasonable and I don't plan on leaving the VA anyway. The obligation for service is technically supposed to be done with the same VA that sponsored your VANEEP application, however, I was told that transfers have been done before. I was concerned about it because my husband is active duty military so I wanted to be sure that we won't get separated if I did get the VANEEP scholarship. Good luck in figuring out the best program for you, but VANEEP is definitely the best deal they have with salary + school paid for.