<p>For engineering looking at University of Minnesota, Iowa State, University of Iowa, Missou and University of Kansas any others in their ballpark I should take a look at?</p>
<p>Just go to your local state university. It will be lower cost and comparable to any other midwestern state school.</p>
<p>Well I live in Illinois and do not want to go to Uof I.</p>
<p>U MN is the top engineering program in the group. It is also the most difficult admit with 90% of their frosh scoring 28+ on the ACT along with high grades.</p>
<p>The rest are all pretty easy admits. Of those, Iowa State has the top engineering program followed roughly by Iowa, KU, and Mizzou.</p>
<p>In the region, I would also look at Purdue, U Nebraska, Ohio State, Michigan State, Miami (OH).</p>
<p>Mizzou makes it really easy to get instate tuition after frosh year. Check their website.</p>
<p>Nebraska offers great scholarship to make it pretty cheap for good OOS students.</p>
<p>Iowa State has a really low OOS cost (about $29,000 per year) and also offers lots of scholarships to OOS students. Many IL residents find it is subtantially cheaper to attend ISU over U IL.</p>
<p>Do pay attention to the cost of each. For instance you would be full pay for Purdue.</p>
<p>Well I live in Illinois and do not want to go to Uof I</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>What are your parents saying about how much they’ll pay? If they won’t pay the costs for an OOS public, then your choices will be limited. </p>
<p>What are your stats? SAT, ACT, and GPA</p>
<p>If your parents won’t pay the OOS costs, and you want to go OOS, then consider schools where your stats would give you enough merit money to bring costs down to what your parents will pay.</p>
<p>Iowa State has a really low OOS cost (about $29,000 per year) and also offers lots of scholarships to OOS students</p>
<p>To say that a school offers lots of scholarships to OOS students is misleading. That suggests that if you’re OOS, you’re going to get a scholarship…so not true.</p>
<p>At schools that are known to give merit scholarships, it depends on your scores and GPA. If they’re not high enough, you won’t get any merit money.</p>
<p>^ If your stats are good enough to get into UofI Engineering then you will get merit from Iowa State.
They have a nice merit award estimator -
<a href=“https://www.admissions.iastate.edu/award_calc/freshman.php[/url]”>https://www.admissions.iastate.edu/award_calc/freshman.php</a></p>
<p>I understand that in-state is usually the best bet financially, but that is definitely NOT the case for UofI.</p>
<p>Also check out Missouri S&T, it looks very interesting, great engineering and multiple majors, good merit, great post-college stats.</p>
<p>Is that merit calculator working right? I put in 4.0, first in class, ACT 35 and only got a measly $8k per year. Maybe it’s not working for me?</p>
<p>An $8,000 per year merit scholarship may not seem like too much, until you realize that Iowa State’s non-resident cost of attendance is only around $31,000 per year. So net price with such a merit scholarship but no other scholarships or financial aid would be $23,000 per year.</p>
<p>I have a 30ACT and 3.79 GPA, and want to keep my tuition to about $25,000.
Thanks.</p>
<p>Do you mean just tuition or tuition/fees/room/board?</p>
<p>You have very good stats but I think you are wise to look out of state as UIUC’s engineering schools is one of the best and I’m not sure you would get in. Iowa State is a terrific choice. You might also consider Marquette and Bradley - they both give merit aid although not sure you would get as much as you need. Both programs are definitely worth a look.</p>
<p>UIUC’s resident cost for engineering majors is $34,514 per year, according to [University</a> of Illinois Financial Aid: Cost](<a href=“http://www.osfa.illinois.edu/cost/undergrad/res_1314.html]University”>http://www.osfa.illinois.edu/cost/undergrad/res_1314.html) . UIUC financial aid is generally poor (even for residents), but the OP might as well run the net price calculator to get an estimate.</p>
<p>Iowa State and Minnesota, even as a non-resident, have a good chance of being less expensive than UIUC.</p>
<p>I would highly recommend U of MN over ISU any day.</p>
<p>have a 30ACT and 3.79 GPA, and want to keep my tuition to about $25,000.
Thanks</p>
<p>Can you clarify…</p>
<p>Are your parents saying that they will pay up to $25k per year for tuition, fees, room, board, books, etc?</p>
<p>Yes, about that for tuition, room and board only.</p>