Regular Officer

Regular Officers are full time Officers, who usually live and work on military bases. After completing your training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, you'll be leading from the front and caring for your soldiers.

You don’t need to have a degree to become an Army officer – just good A levels, or equivalent. In fact you can even study for one while serving if you choose.

Financial Support

Whether you’re joining as an Officer or a Soldier the Army is there to support you as you learn and develop.

The Army offers a range of financial support packages, bursaries and scholarships to selected officer candidates during further and higher education. All applicants for bursaries or scholarships must meet the officer eligibility standards and pass the Army Officer Selection Board.

Army Officer Internships

The Army Internship Programme is your opportunity to experience a challenging and rewarding year with the Army in the role of an Army Officer for 12 months before, during or after University.

You will receive the same world class leadership training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst as our Army Reserve Officers and then further training afterwards, depending on your role. You will then be attached to a regular Army unit, in the UK and on routine duties around the world, shadowing the daily role of an Army Officer, learning to lead up to 30 soldiers.

You will be paid throughout and take part in sports, adventurous training and military training exercises, but you will not deploy on operations.

An Officer Internship offers unique and exceptional leadership training and experience, as well as an unrivalled insight into the life of an Army Officer. Once you have completed your internship, you can elect to remain in the Army as a Reservist or regular Army Officer, or you can choose a completely different career path.

Skills you'll gain include:

• Learning how to overcome physical and mental challenges

• Developing your leadership qualities and gaining key management skills

You do not have to continue serving in the Army after your internship, but we do hope that you will. You will be qualified to continue to serve as an officer in the Army Reserve both during and after university; or you can complete the Regular Commissioning Course if you'd like to serve as a full-time Army Officer.

Officer events

We regularly hold events to help people thinking about a career as an Army officer understand more about what life as an officer is like.

Currently, these are being held online. Hear from Platoon Commanders and Officer Cadets from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, as well as serving junior Officers at an insight day, or get a closer look at Army life from a female perspective at one of our online presentations.

• Register your interest for one of our insight events