Fork Union Military Academy
★ Founded 1898; Grades 7-12 and a post-graduate year; 300-350 students; over 1,000 acres in central Virginia; accredited by the Virginia Association of Independent Schools, member of TABS and AMCSUS; the One Subject Plan, in place since 1950, has students take one core course at a time; Baptist in origin and open to students of every faithCheck accreditation yourself
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An all-male military boarding school for Grades 7-12 and a post-graduate year on over 1,000 acres in central Virginia, founded in 1898 and accredited by VAIS. Its One Subject Plan has students take one core course at a time. Vietnam is among the countries it lists. International tuition for 2026-27 is USD 47,400 plus fees and uniforms.
- The One Subject Plan is the reason to look at this school and it deserves a plain explanation: cadets take one core academic course at a time rather than five or six in parallel. For a student whose English is still developing, concentrating on a single subject at a time changes the shape of the work — there is one vocabulary to master at a time, not six. The school has run this since 1950 and says no other school in America offers it.
- Tuition 2026-27 as published. International (Grades 7-12): USD 47,400 tuition, room and board, plus USD 2,500 in fees and USD 3,500 in uniforms for new cadets. Domestic boarding is USD 39,900 on the same fee and uniform basis, so the international premium is USD 7,500 — the largest gap in this group in proportional terms.
- Day tuition is USD 19,950 plus USD 2,500 fees and USD 2,500 uniforms. Post-graduate programmes are priced separately and much lower: PG lacrosse and basketball USD 31,900, PG football USD 15,950, both domestic boarding.
- The school's own international page lists Vietnam among the countries its cadets have come from, alongside Bermuda, Bulgaria, Bolivia, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Mexico, Mongolia, Nigeria, Poland, Russia and South Korea. International cadets are about 10% of the student body, and there is a named International Student Coordinator.
- English testing is encouraged but no minimum is enforced: TOEFL (code 3588), TOEFL Junior, Duolingo and SSAT (code 3207) are all accepted. International applicants must also submit a copy of their passport.
- One point the school makes itself, and it is worth repeating because families often assume otherwise: Fork Union states it has no affiliation with any branch of the armed forces. This is a military-style boarding environment and a route to a disciplined structure, not an enlistment path.
- The school reports 100% of graduating seniors received a college acceptance — published without a stated method, like every such figure in this directory.
The 2026-27 fee table including the USD 47,400 international rate, the domestic boarding and day rates, the post-graduate programmes, the fees and the uniform charges were read directly on forkunion.com on 17 September 2026 at /admissions/tuition-fees/. The 10% international share, the COUNTRY LIST INCLUDING VIETNAM, the TOEFL code 3588 and SSAT code 3207, the passport requirement and the named International Student Coordinator come from /admissions/international-students/. The 1898 founding, the Grades 7-12 and PG range, the 300-350 enrolment, the 1,000-plus acres, VAIS accreditation, the Baptist origin, the One Subject Plan since 1950 and the statement that the school has 'no affiliation with any branch of the armed forces' come from /about/. NOT FOUND: the student-teacher ratio, the average class size, any English-language support programme, application deadlines, the application fee, and a clear statement of whether international students are eligible for financial aid. The USD 8,071,371 college scholarship figure and the '100% acceptance' figure are published by the school itself. Tuition changes from year to year.
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Fork Union Military Academy sits in the Upper-mid tuition band. Tuition and scholarships change every year and by program, so VNIS provides the exact up-to-date figures for the program you choose during consultation. The school states that more than half of its enrolled students receive some amount of need-based financial aid each year, and reports USD 8,071,371 in college merit scholarship dollars received by its graduating seniors so far — a school-published figure with no stated cohort, so read it as a claim rather than a rate. It publishes no separate statement about whether international students are eligible for its own need-based aid, which is the question to put in writing first. Payment plans are available with an administrative fee for anything other than payment in full..
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Fork Union Military Academy is located in Fork Union, Virginia, United States, a private boarding school.
What are the tuition and scholarships at Fork Union Military Academy?
Tuition sits in the "Upper-mid" band. Tuition and scholarships change every year and by program, so VNIS provides the exact up-to-date figures for your chosen program during consultation. The school states that more than half of its enrolled students receive some amount of need-based financial aid each year, and reports USD 8,071,371 in college merit scholarship dollars received by its graduating seniors so far — a school-published figure with no stated cohort, so read it as a claim rather than a rate. It publishes no separate statement about whether international students are eligible for its own need-based aid, which is the question to put in writing first. Payment plans are available with an administrative fee for anything other than payment in full..
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