Starting Over After Serving, Program Helps Veterans Cover Cost Of College

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - The Yellow Ribbon program is designed to help veterans continue their education. It covers most, if not all, college expenses and can help veterans transition from the military to civilian life.

27-year-old Ian Williams is an Army Veteran.

"I joined the Army, I was shipped off to basic training within a month," he says. "I was active duty army in the infantry for four years, stationed out of Kansas. Deployed to Afghanistan for a year in 2011."

He left the army in June 2013 and was enrolled at Drexel through the Yellow Ribbon program that fall.

"It's like a $50,000 a year school, that I'm able to attend for free and get the degree that I want to do that allows me to go to grad school," he explains. "I'm looking to do physical therapy."

Williams will graduate in June with a degree in health sciences.