In state tuition for out of state schools if there is no major?

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<p>I read in a previous post while searching the other day that if a student wanted to go for a degree that was not offered at any of his/her state schools, they would be granted in state tuition for the school they attended (OOS that had that major). Is this correct? I had never heard of this before and was curious about it. Does it apply for all states, or just those who chose to participate? The example I read about was from Virginia (in state) going to out of state school (in NC). Then I remembered a neighbor (from VA) telling me she went for an industrial engineering degreee at Auburn and paid in state tuition because at the time no Va schools offered that degree (she said Va Tech does now) Any info on this would put my curious mind to rest! :)</p>

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<p>It's call the Academic Common Market, not all programs and not all colleges are included. You need to research at this website.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.sreb.org/programs/acm/acmindex.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.sreb.org/programs/acm/acmindex.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>There are serveral other regional exchange programs in the West, Midwest and New England. Check them out. <a href="http://finaid.org/otheraid/exchange.phtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://finaid.org/otheraid/exchange.phtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Thanks for the links and the information! Interesting information to know and possibly share with others. It looks like a very good program for a student with the right type of educational needs.</p>

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<p>Looks to me like we in NY, PA and NJ got left out in the cold. The New England States to our north and all the states to the south are in this low cost thingy and all we have are a ton of colleges that cost an arm and a leg for in-state!</p>

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<p>kathie-I think the thing is that those in NY, NJ and PA have alot of public options and most majors available to their students at a public rate. NH has 3 publics for a combined total of about 18,000 students. Many majors are unavailable at any of our public universities. This program gives our students the option to study the major of their choice at a somewhat affordable rate. We would pay 1 1/2 times the instate rate to study the unavailable major at a neighboring state's participating public. If the student changes their major to one that is available in NH, the tuition reverts back to the OOS rate. It gives those of us with very small public uni systems a few more affordable options but only for specific majors.</p>

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<p>Yes, the academic common market does give some further options. However, I have found, at least in Maryland, that the options are generally in undesirable schools. Our only options are to attends some other southern schools, most of which I have never heard of. It would be great if we could pick the state school that has our desired major.</p>

<p>Moreover, to use the Academic Common Market, your state can't offer your desired major in ANY of the instate universities. Thus, if on the state universities or colleges offers the program, no matter how inferior in quality it may be, you can not use the ACM for that major.</p>