Cheap schools for out of state students?

<p>I want to go to college out of state. I'm finding that a lot of colleges charge very high tuition to out of state students however. Does anyone know of any good schools that have low tuition for out of state students, or offer good financial aid? Looking for a fairly respectable school.</p>

<p>Try the SUNY system. The OOS tuition (without the fees, etc.) is about $10,600. Expect about $9000. for room and board. There are plenty of good SUNY schools, but the most well known are:</p>

<p>SUNY Binghamton
SUNY Geneseo
University at Buffalo
SUNY Stony Brook</p>

<p>SUNY:</a> Freshmen Students</p>

<p>If you're on the west coast, look into the Western Undergraduate Exchange. Many states and public colleges on the west coast (I know Washington, Oregon, California and I'm pretty sure there are more) participate, and if you meet certain requirements a student from Oregon can go to a public college in Washington (for example) for 150% in-state tuition.</p>

<p>I know many students probably know about this already, just trying to get the word out more!</p>

<p>Stats? Preferred location? Major?</p>

<p>University of Minnesota</p>

<p>U of M</p>

<p>NOT u of michigan, that's quite the opposite.</p>

<p>U of Minnesota</p>

<p>Cheap tuition for out-of-state:</p>

<p>Try anything in Missouri and south.</p>

<p>I can't imagine any California and New York state schools being more than 10% OOS, and personally I think OOS diversity of 20% or greater is a plus. Look at colleges in:</p>

<p>Arizona
Iowa
North Carolina
Virginia
Delaware</p>

<p>Have you looked at the numbers? The tuition gets very expensive for out of state students. UCLA is $7,000 for California residents, and $26,000 for non-residents. National</a> Universities Rankings - Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report Most of the schools here that charge the same thing for all students are ones that charge a lot anyway.</p>

<p>University of South Carolina offers good scholarships for OOS with the right grades/stats. It gets you instate tution cost.</p>

<p>Clemson University also has something similiar for instate tuition, I believe.</p>

<p>dudedad - Is Delaware generous with OSS tuition aid or grants? When we visited it with one of our kids a few years ago, the financial aid office gave a presentation in which it warned that it is stingy with grants for out-of-state student. That kid liked the school, but was scared off from applying. I have another kid who is looking at OSS schools (outside of PA)...should we take another trip back to Delaware?</p>

<p>Read somewhere that Ohio-Michigan do some tuition sharing, and that some of the New England states also have a tuition alliance of some kind.</p>

<p>We found that Ohio schools gave enough aid to make their tuition equivalent to Penn State's in-state rate, and that the SUNY schools were comparatively generous. Got no money from UCONN as an out-of-state student (unfortunately, it had been one kid's first choice but was just too expensive). </p>

<p>Anyone have any experience with Michigan State as an out-of-state student?</p>

<p>Neonzeus --</p>

<p>I couldn't post the link, but OOS tuition is about $20K for U of Delaware for 2008-09 and overall COA is about 30K. So it's not up there like U of Michigan for OOS, but no bargain like U of Arizona or Iowa.</p>

<p>U of Alabama and New College of Florida are reasonable for OOS and good schools. U of Delaware is quite expensive, my son was accepted there several years ago and was offered a 4K scholarship, went to U of Miami with 22K scholarship instead.</p>

<p>Virginia Tech.</p>

<p>Here is Kiplinger's best-quality/value list. Click of the OOS tab to sort by OOS costs...</p>

<p>Rankings</a> for 100 Best Values in Public Colleges</p>

<p>University of Wisconsin-Madison was about 6500 a semester as an out of state student. That was 8 years ago, but I can't believe it would have gone up disproportionately.</p>

<p>FYI...UCLA UCLA</a> Undergrad Admissions: Fees, Tuition, and Estimated Student Budget</p>

<p>Note the OOS box adds tuition of $20,021 onto student fees of $8,141 for those students out of state. Look closely at all fees when calculating a public school out of your state.</p>

<p>A lot of schools have raised the OOS differentials so make sure you check. Also have to check by school, not by state. There are some schools like UVA and W&M that have heftier surcharges than other state schools (Virginia Tech, for instance).</p>

<p>Also check if your state has reciprocity with other states for tuition, or if it will give reciprocity for majors not offered by your state school.</p>

<p>Excellent link. Thanks, rogracer.</p>