Affordable undergrad business school for international student?

I major in either accounting/finance and am transferring from a community college in Cali soon. Please, not something like ASU, CSUC, Cal Poly or those stuffs.

Can’t afford something like UCB Haas, USC Marshall, or NYU. but my GPA is around 3.8ish, can’t tell the final score yet since I’m not done with CC.

I’m looking for schools at the range of $30000/year or very close to that, preferably school that offers merit scholarships to international students.

Schools with big international student body would do a wonder. I am thinking about view names like Illinois-UC, IU-Kelley, UT-McCombs, UofMaryland, or even OSU/PSU if worth it.

Any suggestions on the best valued schools? I would truly appreciate recommendations out of my list!

Look at the state schools. Knowing you’re a international candidate. Price may vary from school

Examples would help a lot.

UIUC is known for its terrible merit, even for in-state students. I’m not sure about Maryland for international students, but it’s not super generous for U.S. students, so I doubt it would meet your financial goals, either. I can’t help with the rest of the list.

Keep in mind that you’ll be a transfer student, and that an overwhelming number of school scholarships are awarded to freshmen only. One avenue might be to look at some of the private schools that offer business, even if that isn’t their focus. A large scholarship from one of them could bring the cost down into your range.

Good luck!

The public schools in Missouri, Ohio, Utah, Nevada, and New Mexico are a good place to start looking for strong business schools in your price range.

Beside tOSU I don’t think any of those listed would work. Perhaps umn tc?

@nerdmom88 can you list a few names of those private schools? (if you know any)

That’s not my area – my kids are more interested in state schools – but there are threads on here that list LACs with great scholarships.

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities is reasonably priced, and they offer merit scholarships to international students.

@Alexandre do they offer merit for int’l transfer students?

The problem this student faces is few schools give merit to int’l transfer students. There may be a couple, but it sounds like this student wants higher ranking schools.

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I’m looking for schools at the range of $30000/year or very close to that, preferably school that offers merit scholarships to international students.

Schools with big international student body would do a wonder. I am thinking about view names like Illinois-UC, IU-Kelley, UT-McCombs, UofMaryland, or even OSU/PSU if worth it.
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None of those would be $30k per year, and none give merit to int’l transfers.

UMTC does give merit aid to international transfers. No idea of the criteria.

“Please, not something like ASU, CSUC, Cal Poly or those stuffs.”

Can you tell us why those schools won’t work for you?

Schools generally don’t give much money to transfer students or to international students. And they give even less (if anything at all) to int’l transfer students.

Your best opportunity to get merit money was as a newly entering freshman, because college rankings are based on the stats of newly entering freshman. There’s nothing in it for colleges to give merit money to transfer students.

If you’re too high and mighty for * “…ASU, CSUC, Cal Poly or those stuffs.”*, then why didn’t you just go a fancier name school in the first place?

ASU WP Carey School of Business is far better than the other more expensive schools, and is 5th in the country in number of international students. Check it out.

“Beside tOSU I don’t think any of those listed would work.”

What are your career goals? How do you know you can’t achieve them coming from a school that is actually within your budget?

@PrimeMeridian Cost. Parents wouldn’t let me apply to UC Berkeley because it would be around $60k a year with no merit scholarship / aid.

CalPoly, CSU’s = 35K; ASU Barrett has scholarships.