Any threads here that lists schools that give in state tuition to out of state students…
I don’t know of any that give in-state to out-of-state students, but there are a few exchanges for OOS discounts. These are usually dependent on where you live.
If you live in a western state, there is the Western Undergraduate Exchange
http://wue.wiche.edu/search_results.jsp?searchType=all
but be careful because it is not all majors at the listed schools. An OOS student pays just 150% of in-state tuition for qualified majors.
Similarly there is a Midwest Student Exchange
Also Texas Tech offers graduated tuitions not much above in-state to residents of New Mexico and Oklahoma.
I don’t know of a list but NY is desperate for any applicants from OOS and gives them priority. You can tell by how low OOS tuition is. And, they give merit to OOS too. And credentials don’t need to be as strong as they might be needed for in state students. Of course, you get what you pay for-and that’s the rub.
Some schools give merit scholarships in the form of an award offering in-state tuition rates to OOS students.
NY State schools offer very reasonable but not in-state tuition to OOS students.
Please don’t discount private schools. We are spending less for each of our kids at private schools. For our son, the in-state public school would have cost about $7,000 more, and for our daughter, the in-state public school would have cost $5,000 more.
Some schools on state borders will give in-state tuition to contiguous counties but that’s school and county specific. I believe I saw UVermont was matching costs of in-state institutions from nearby states. Some schools will give in-state if you get a scholarship (U Texas schools, TAMU).
U of Maine is doing something interesting. They are charging the home instate rate for students to attend their school from certain states.
Then my post above was wrong. I thought that was Vermont but I see now it was Maine. Sorry OP.
Oklahoma State and OU waive out of state tuition for students that have good grades. (many Texas students benefit from this) and I believe there is a western state agreement of some sort between New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma etc. May want to check into this if you are from any of these states.
There are schools that do this, but for certain grades/stats. some just waive or give instate rates, while others give a scholarship to cover the OOS portion.
University of North Texas gives the instate rate to any student who theynalsomaward $1000 in scholarships,per year to…I believe that’s the number.
U of South Carolina had a similar award. Not sure if they still do.
There is New England Regional Students Program which lowered tuition to 175% of in-state for a student from New England.
http://www.nebhe.org/programs-overview/rsp-tuition-break/find-a-program/
Minnesota has tuition reciprocity agreements with a number of other states.
https://www.ohe.state.mn.us/mPg.cfm?pageID=97
Please also read the fine print carefully in regards to “fees” - for example, at UMASS Amherst (flagship Massachusetts State School,) the “tuition” is just a very small part of the full cost - they even offer “full tuition!” if you score a certain percentage on the state high school test, MCAS. Many are surprised when after they accept they realize that does NOT include the high fees. Since Massachusetts cannot raise tuition above a certain percentage, per state law, they charge higher fees. (Most schools charge some fees, but not to this extent.)
For in-state resident versus regional resident:
The difference in TUITION is $643 per semester/$1,286 per year. Not too terrible. HOWEVER,
The difference in TUITION and FEES added together is $4,698 per term/$9,396 per year difference.
In addition, there are assorted other fees; at least $1,243.50 per semester. If you are in the engineering school and/or in the honors college, there are even more fees.
That is a “gotcha” if you don’t think to look carefully at the full “tuition and fees” pages.
I pulled these numbers off of the UMASS site:
To reiterate the important point made by post#5, don’t overlook private schools. They often give generous FA or merit money to be competitive w instate public.
If you live in a New England state and your state univ. system doesn’t offer a particular program but another states’s system does, you can attend that school at a rate that is in between instate and OSS rates. For example, no public university in MA offers a masters of library science program, but URI and Southern CT State do. So MA residents can study at those schools for the intermediate cost.
To reiterate GMTplus7’s reiteration, the rule in our home was that if you can get merit aid at a private school for the same or less $$ than the state flagship would cost, then go for it. Worked for 2 out of 3 kids. The third is at the flagship and loves it there. First 2 graduated from private universities.
University of Minnesota - Morris
University of Minnesota - Morris