<p>Hi there</p>
<p>Does anyone happen to know where I can find a list of out of state colleges that offer in state tuition to residents of Washington state?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>I don't think there are ANY colleges that offer in state tuition to OOS applicants.</p>
<p>There may be a, what we in the midwest, call a tri-state initiative. This gives residents of certain midwestern states a chance to go to another midwestern states public schools at a similar to instate or discounted tuition. I am not too sure about on the west coast though.</p>
<p>The SUNY system in NY offers cheap tuition to OOS students as well as in-state students. They're rather far away from Washington, and in-state students obviously get cheaper tuition, but it's worth a look.</p>
<p>Check out WICHE</a> - Student Exchange Programs</p>
<p>University of Mew Mexico and New Mexico state offer instate tuition to those with decent grades and SAT scores. I think several other states do the same.</p>
<p>Wisconsin and Minnesota have a reciprocal arrangement where residents of one state can attend universities in the other state at a reduced tuition rate. The reduced rate is not always as cheap as in-state tuition, but it's usually not dramatically higher than in-state tuition.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, this type of arrangement is uncommon. In most cases, it wouldn't work because more residents of state A would attend universities in state B than vice versa.</p>
<p>Someone who is completely uninterested in their own state's public universities for whatever reason still has options. Some public universities are relatively affordable for OOS students.</p>
<p>+1 to what Sabster said. IIRC, OOS tuition and fees are only about $12,000 per year in tuition and fees for OOS students.</p>
<p>If you're willing to go to another country, McGill also costs about $12,000 (U.S.) per year for tuition and fees for international students at current exchange rates. (Of course, any American without Canadian nationality is an international student at McGill.) I attended McGill for two semesters. In my experience, it is a superlative institution academically and otherwise.</p>
<p>If you want to attend a university ranked in the Top 50 and stay in the US, Wisconsin and UNC have OOS tuition and fees in the low $20K's per year.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>^ Minnesota also has tuition reciprocity agreements with North Dakota, South Dakota, and the Canadian province of Manitoba.</p>
<p>The University of Minnesota-Morris, a very good public liberal arts college, charges the same tuition for in-state and out-of-state students, currently $8,230/yr (plus $1,776 in fees). I believe this is also true of several campuses of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (the MNSCU system, which is different from the University of Minnesota system).</p>
<p>The University of Minnesota's flagship Twin Cities campus, one of the better public research universities in the country, does charge out-of-state tuition but at a moderate rate pegged to $2,000/semester above the in-state rate. 2008-09 tuition and fees are currently $10,809/yr for Minnesota, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, and Manitoba residents; $14,809 for everyone else. This is one of the great bargains in higher education.</p>
<p>In New England, we have the NERSP, which basically means you pay the other state's in-state tuition plus 50%. It only applies if the college in the other state has a major you can't find in yours, though. Info is here: New</a> England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) - Tuition Break</p>
<p>I received some scholarships that allowed me to get in-state tuition in other states, but I was only looking at private colleges (other than my state flagship), so it didn't really matter.</p>
<p>If you are from Washington, then you can attend many[/url</a>] public schools in other western states at a discounted out-of-state tuition rate through the [url=<a href="http://wue.wiche.edu/%5DWestern">http://wue.wiche.edu/]Western</a> Undergraduate Exchange. This includes schools in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. </p>
<p>The WUE rate is 50% more than the regular in-state tuition rate. But this can still be an excellent deal. For example, the University of Nevada's Mining Engineering Dept. [url=<a href="http://www.unr.edu/mines/mine-eng/reduced_tuition.asp%5Dclaims%5B/url">http://www.unr.edu/mines/mine-eng/reduced_tuition.asp]claims[/url</a>] that the WUE program allows California residents to study at the University of Nevada for lower tuition than at the University of California.</p>
<p>But note that many of the best-known state schools in the West don't participate in the WUE program. Some of the schools that apparently do not participate include all University of California campuses, Cal Poly, University of Colorado, Colorado School of Mines, Arizona State, and Oregon State.</p>