The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the majority of veterans using the new “post-9/11” GI Bill are attending community colleges or for-profit schools. This fact apparently disappoints some supporters of the bill, who thought that it would lead more veterans to four-year nonprofits.

We have to assume that many of these veterans are savvy, seasoned individuals who are looking for their best opportunities; they are certainly not ignorant 18-year-olds. Their choices reinforce the views that 1) not everyone wants to go to a traditional college, and 2) the chances for getting jobs may indeed be better at schools with a vocational bent.