The Student Trainee Work-Study Training and Promotion Plan is designed to furnish the Coast Guard with a long-range program for recruiting, developing, and retaining the best potential professional talent available. Students are selected for participation in the program on the basis of demonstrated scholastic ability and must maintain a relatively high level of scholastic performance. Sixty-one colleges and universities participate in providing training. The candidates must have been enrolled or accepted for enrollment in a cooperative work-study program in one of the colleges of universities in a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in, or closely allied to, the field in which they will receive on-the-job training. The training program covers the following fields: Accountant, Aeronautical Engineer, Architect, Business Administration, Civil Engineer, Comptrollership, Electrical Engineer (Marine or Power), Electronics Engineer (Communications and Search, Navigational Aids, Radio Station, Electronics Engineering), Mathematician, Mechanical Engineer (Heating, Air Conditioning and Ventilating; and Marine), Naval Architect, Oceanographer, and Physicist. Instructional materials and plan, facilities and equipment, performance standards, a rating factors form, and definition of rating factors are discussed. (DB)