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This may be different in your school but I am only talking about OK as that is the one I know about, and the OP asked about OK in her post. In OK (where my kids go to school so I do know what the fees are) public Us the fees are per credit hour and are almost as much again as tuition. It varies by which college within the school - engineering the fees are maybe $4-5 less per hour than instate tuition costs, Arts and Sciences they are about $15-$20 less. At the big Us they run into thousands of dollars a year, not $500 to $600. As I said in my post, almost as much again as the tuition. Individual course fees such as labs and fiels trips are in addition to the fees I am talking about. </p>
<p>I think they are a way to get round any limitations placed on tuition increases. And of course the full tuition waivers do not usually cover these fees so when the tuition and fees increase the tuition is covered for full waiver scholars, but not the fees. Last year they considered not increasing tuition but increasing fees :eek: . Fortunately that did not happen.</p>
<p>OP - For the full tuition waivers in OK your son would probably need to be a NMF if he is OOS. The other full tuition waivers mostly waiver OOS tuition but not the instate for OOS students.</p>