I am considering accepting a job for 12-18 months in the sate of Oregon as a “gap year”.
I am currently a Colorado resident, and I need to change my residency to Oregon pretty much immediately because this job requires an Oregon drivers license.
In this 12-18 month range, now can I go back to school full-time in Colorado, or do I lose my in-state tuition there? I know in the 0-12 month range, I would not have in-state in the state of Oregon, so I am assuming I would still be able to move back to Colorado, but I am curious about the 12-18 month range.
Are you under 24? Are your parents still living and will continue living in your home state?
Yes I am 20 and my parents are not going to move anytime soon in home state.
You derive your state residency from where you parents live until age of 24 so you should be fine.
Most Colorado schools will base it on your parent’s residency.
Just because you don’t have residency in Oregon doesn’t mean you will have it in Colorado (but I think you will). It is very possible to have instate residency in no state. For example, you go to Oregon and your parents move to California = no instate tuition for you anywhere.
I think the answer is always that you have to check with the school in question. Every state, and maybe even different schools within a state, can have their own version of the rules.
https://highered.colorado.gov/finance/residency/faq.html
If you are under 22, your parents’ residency should help you retain residency. After age 22, it looks like you’d have to re-establish residency on your own, which could take a year.
Not necessarily.
Also, will this student be a college grad when this happens? Or just a high school grad?
Once a student is a college grad (even if not 24), he can establish residency elsewhere.