<p>...OOS tuition costs for state schools in the east?</p>
<p>Nah...I thought that would make it too easy for me....</p>
<p>Yikes! I was sure somewhere online I’d find a list. Hmmm. In any case it took me just twenty seconds on XAP to locate the information for the University of Virginia. So perhaps you’ll still have time to watch the Hall of Fame game on Sunday. GO TITANS!</p>
<p>I did have one for the northeast, but can’t lay my hands on it now. I can tell you that NYS schools were easily the lowest tuition for OOS kids. It’s easy and fairly quick to construct this list using Collegeboard or Campus Tour.</p>
<p>I’m not a big USNWR fan but isn’t that one of the fields you can sort on if you buy the premium addition? (Or it is easy-peasy to collect for individual schools if you have a list.)</p>
<p>I did have costs for UVM, UNH, UConn, and a couple of the SUNYs on a spreadsheet, I’ll see if I can dig it up. We weren’t looking at URI or Maine-Orono, and we didn’t have UMass on there because we’re in state. I do remember that sk8rmom is correct, the SUNYs won the OOS bargain contest by a landslide–in fact, as I recall, SUNY Binghamton would only be about $7,000 more OOS than UMass is for in-staters. </p>
<p>But the bottom line for us was that even the SUNYs would only be a viable economic option if the FA news from the privates we’re considering was really bad.</p>
<p>if you go on collegedata . com and search for schools in the NE (or by state) it will bring up a list of all the schools with res & non-res costs.</p>
<p>Here we go…these figures are pulled from collegedata dot com and supposedly represent total annual costs:</p>
<p>SUNY Binghamton: $23,166
SUNY Geneseo: $23,288
UMass Amherst: $32,243
U Maine: $32,818
URI: $33,604
UConn: $36,890
UNH: $37,637
U Vermont: $40,408</p>
<p>Those SUNYs are an even better bargain than I remembered–I thought the total cost was more like $25-26K. So the difference between SUNY OOS and UMass in-state is under $3000 (in-state cost for UMA is listed at $20,746). That’s crazy.</p>
<p>Thanks nightchef!</p>
<p>Wow, UVM is crazy expensive comparatively! </p>
<p>Have you noticed that some college websites really do a good job of hiding the tuition costs on their website?</p>
<p>I’m sure those in the south and west are chuckling right now.</p>
<p>Yeah, its not something a college really wants to brag about in any case. </p>
<p>I’d imagine you could write a script to get all these stats from a site like college board, but wouldn’t it be better to first find school you (or your kid) likes by some other metric before tackling cost?</p>
<p>^ I think that’s more true when it comes to privates than publics, because (at least so I am told) need-based aid is not available at most public U’s to OOS students on the same terms as in-state. The nearly $15,000 difference between the cost of George Washington U and Goucher College (two schools we just visited) may not matter in the end, because it’s quite possible that GWU might offer us enough extra aid to make up the difference. But it seems extremely unlikely that UVM will offer us enough aid to make it anything like as affordable as Binghamton.</p>
<p>RTR–one thing I have noticed is that many schools hide their cost info under the “Financial Aid” link. It’s as if they’re trying to pre-sell you on the solution before they let you see the problem! All very silly.</p>
<p>Nightchef, I agree with you about the publics. I’m assuming there will be no money from any of them, and my son has crossed almost all privates off his list. (Although I hope he isn’t doing that because of cost!) </p>
<p>Meanwhile, I’m going to compare your costs to one or two on the actual college’s website to see if they are still current.</p>
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<p>Yes, but very few students go to SUNYs from out of state.</p>
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<p>This is not really accurate. While some of the more remote SUNY’s may not attract many out of state students, and the SUNY system as a whole does not actively promote itself well, there are actually quite a few out of state kids. What seems, at first glance, as a low number has to be taken in context of the total enrollment. For example, UB may only have 9% out of state students, but that’s out of an enrollment of nearly 28,000. So the actual number is over 2,500 just at UB. The 15% of Binghamton’s 14,000 students would be close to 2,000. Compared to many schools, that’s not very few!</p>
<p>I’m not sure why it really matters how many students are out of state anyway. New York is such a diverse state that you’re almost guaranteed to find a variety of races and cultures represented.</p>
<p>UVM is known for being expensive for a public. It’s also unusual in that the majority of its approx 7000 students are OOS. That’s probably because the entire population of the state of VT is less than a million people. I know a few people whose kids go there, they all love it.</p>
<p>Of course UMV is my daughters first choice. Some privates on out list are cheaper. I can’t understand why it’s so expensive - maybe VT does not provide enough funds? Even highly expensive NJ (where I’m from) has lower OOS costs.</p>
<p>We looked at UVM (NY residents) a few years back and as I recall, the honors program was a draw. But as mentioned,the price was way too high and the merit money way too low. I believe the top merit award was something like $5000. Not even close to the full OOS scholarship our daughter received from PITT.</p>
<p>If you’re from one of the six New England states, I suggest you look here: [New</a> England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) - RSP Tuition Break Catalog](<a href=“http://www.nebhe.org/content/view/21/57/]New”>http://www.nebhe.org/content/view/21/57/) </p>
<p>My S enrolled in UMASS in a major that qualified for the tuition waiver even though he intended to switch after one year (he ended up transferring instead). So I got the in-state (almost) price for him to take his gen ed courses.</p>
<p>Stony Brook has a very large international student population.</p>