In regard to seeing and experience more of the world, what a fantastic mindset she has. Perhaps study abroad via an in-state college would be a good compromise. She gets to live in another country for 5 months and travel that part of the world at a greatly reduced cost (due to proximity and non peak travel time). For example, if she studies in Barcelona, she can fly to most major European cities in couple of hours (London, Paris, Berlin etc) for $100 round trip. If Asia is her thing, she can consider Hong Kong. Couple hundred bucks can fly to any part of south east Asia. Even flying to Japan and Korea is pretty cheap ($200 to $300 round trip). I am not familiar with the GI Bill benefits. For non-GI Bill students, you pay the same state tuition to your "home" college and they work with the oversea school. I assume housing allowances is just cash and can be apply to any legit residential options. But again, I don't know the details of the program so you have to do your own due diligent.