<p>Total COA for OOS students at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities for 2011-12 is $28,982.</p>
<p>That’s about $10K cheaper than the University of Wisconsin-Madison ($39,201), about $12K cheaper than Purdue ($41,126), about $13K cheaper than Ohio State (^ post #20), $15 K cheaper than Illinois (engineering $43,860), and about $21K cheaper than Michigan ($50,352).</p>
<p>It’s now cheaper to attend Minnesota as an OOS student than it is for a Californian to attend UC Berkeley as an in-state student ($31,566). </p>
<p>All the above-mentioned schools have strong engineering programs. US News ranks the undergraduate engineering programs at the Midwestern schools this way:</p>
<h1>6 Illinois</h1>
<h1>6 Michigan</h1>
<h1>9 Purdue</h1>
<h1>13 Northwestern</h1>
<h1>13 Wisconsin</h1>
<h1>24 Minnesota</h1>
<h1>27 Ohio State</h1>
<h1>38 Iowa State</h1>
<h1>38 WUSTL</h1>
<h1>42 Case Western</h1>
<h1>42 Notre Dame</h1>
<h1>47 Michigan State</h1>
<h1>57 Iowa</h1>
<h1>66 Illinois Institute of Technology</h1>
<h1>66 Michigan Tech</h1>
<h1>76 University of Illinois-Chicago</h1>
<h1>76 Kansas</h1>
<h1>82 MUST</h1>
<h1>82 Cincinnati</h1>
<h1>82 University of Nebraska-Lincoln</h1>
<h1>95 University of Missouri</h1>