Best Affordable Colleges For Engineering

I want to pursue an engineering course. Certain colleges I have short-listed to do so are ; MIT, Princeton, Cornell and Northwestern. I need help in short-listing a couple of more colleges. But the factor to be kept in mind is that they offer NEED-BASED financial aid to international undergraduates. Are there any more colleges good for engineering with a generous financial aid.

I don’t know what their aid offerings are for international students, but Pitt, Clemson, USF (South Florida, in Tampa), UCF (Central Florida, in Orlando), Alabama, Arizona State, and Temple.

If your grades are good enough to make you a legitimate candidate for MIT/Princeton/Cornell/Northwestern, then there are other perfectly fine engineering programs that might offer you enough merit aid. Can you pay anything at all? Or do you need all of your costs covered?

http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/

There are few schools WITH ENGINEERING that give lots of aid to int’ls. Many of the publics don’t give much or any.

How much can your parents pay?

Georgia Tech

Each school’s Common Data Set, section H6, should indicate whether it offers financial aid to international students.
Google for: [College Name] + “Common Data Set”.

Many public universities do not offer financial aid at all to internationals.
Georgia Tech does not. Nor do Pittsburgh or Clemson. USF and Arizona State do (although the average grant is less than $10K/year. ) So does the University of Alabama (and its average grants to internationals are over $18K, according to its 2014-15 CDS). Alabama’s aid to internationals is all merit-based (though I’m not sure that should matter, as long as you meet the award criteria … and IF the award does cover your need.)

Many colleges with the best aid for internationals are either super-selective (like Princeton) or else they are small liberal arts colleges (LACs) with no engineering programs. So the 4 listed in the original post, plus Alabama perhaps, would be among the few that meet the OP’s criteria. Bucknell and Union College are two small schools that do offer aid to internationals, do have engineering programs, and are not extremely selective (much less so than Princeton, anyway). Bucknell’s average grant to internationals in 2014-15 was over $42K (but it only awarded aid to 22 internationals, according to its CDS.)

I need all my costs to be covered. i can just manage to pay for my return to my home country. @happymomof1

My parents can just afford to pay anything less than $5000 an year. Thats all…@mom2collegekids
do you have any options that provide 100% need atleast to a few international undergrads.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/howard-us-kathmandu-connection-nepal-emerges-as-top-source-of-foreign-students/2014/08/27/4cd70376-2a20-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html describes schools which give merit scholarships to international students. Howard and Louisiana Tech (among others) are mentioned in the article, and both offer full ride merit scholarships if your academic stats are high enough (see http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/ ).

@craigsl Are you serious? Georgia Tech? Why would you suggest a school that would not work?

Well, if your parents can only pay about $5k, and that will all go towards your health insurance and your int’l and domestic travel costs, there would be extremely few schools with eng’g that will work for an int’l. Maybe only the ones mentioned.

Even Bucknell doesn’t sound possible. Limited number of awards, and doesn’t sound like many/any “full rides”.

Ankirtdesai, you will have to get into a school like MIT or Princeton. Even after a generous scholarship or financial aid package, very few universities will cost less than $15k/year when you consider room and board, medical insurance (required by law for all international students), books and transportation.

Room and board is covered if you get a full ride.

You should contact the closest office of EducationUSA, and speak with the counselors there. They will know if anyone with your grades and test scores from you country have been admitted with the financial aid that you need: http://educationusa.state.gov/find-advising-center

There is a very small list of colleges and universities that guarantee admission and significant merit aid to US applicants who have excellent grades and test scores. Start with this list, and check each of them to find out if their scholarships also go to international applicants: http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/