Can anybody tell me what schools offer in-state tuition for musical theatre students? Thank you!
Montclair just started doing this
Texas State offers a minimum $1,000 scholarship and in-state tuition.
Florida State offers in-state tuition plus merit scholarships to academically qualified students (not sure what the exact criteria are).
South Dakota has extremely low out of state tuition.
University of Utah - easy residency requirements. Not sure of all the deets.
Missouri State offers instate tuition and academic scholarship for very reasonable GPA and ACT/SAt scores! Ended up being cheaper that our in state tuition / room and board in Texas! They have a great program with a NYC showcase and a close relationship with an equity theatre!
My daughter is out-of-state at Montclair and also got a merit scholarship.
Some people may qualify for in-state tuition at Coastal Carolina through the Academic Commom Market, particularly for the physical theatre degree. It depends if your state has a school that offers that degree as well. If it doesn’t, you may qualify for in state tuition at CCU.
Utah offers in state after one year of residency with no more than 29 days out of state for the year. Parents also can no longer claim their student on taxes. Utah also offers good scholarships for applicants from certain states. My daughter received a fairly generous scholarship sophomore year that is renewable, further reducing her tuition.
Western Michigan (and I would think other public schools in Michigan) has a similar program to Utah, where students can qualify for in-state tuition after a complete year of residency, plus some other requirements.
@EmsDad Western Michigan offers residency after a year? I have not heard that one before
@broadway95 - it surprised me too when I stumbled across it on their web page:
You only need to attend a Michigan school to qualify as a resident to obtain a driver’s license.
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Not the same for U of M… their requirements are more stringent.
Southern Illinois University does for neighboring states - I believe Northern Kentucky does as well.
BUT … I’d like to add that merit scholarships can make out of state privates VERY affordable. (Or at least “relatively” affordable since tuition is altogether crazy everywhere.)
Nebraska Wesleyan ended up being pretty darned equal in overall cost to Southern Illinois University & Indiana University. (Both were in state rates for us.)
Wyoming has scholarships (to any major) that are 150% of instate tuition, but instate tuition is so cheap that 150% is only ~~$7000.
This is great info. Thank you!
No matter what your state of residence, check out schools in neighboring states. Many will offer in-state tuition to residents of contiguous states. The entire south has its own common market agreement, as do some other geographical groupings. For colleges in the midwest, this tends to be more prevalent in smaller (than say, The Ohio State 
), lesser-known schools (outside of their home states) that are trying to get higher admission rates from more competitive students in a larger geographical pool.
Wright State’s OOS tuition is only $17,00 (Ohio IS $9000, R&B/Fees approx. $10,000) with very generous merit scholarships that are not as hard to get as at some other schools - again, looking for more competitive students.
Regarding Northern Kentucky, they offer a Metro rate for about half the counties in OH. It is priced between in state and OOS. There might be some counties in IN eligible, but don’t remember.
The entire south excluding North Carolina. They pulled out of the Common Market Agreement in 2011.
The Midwest Student Exchange Program which is part of MHEC offers discounted tuition if you live in one of these states Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and Wisconsin
If you are from the Midwest, check out the Midwest Student Exchange Program website: http://msep.mhec.org/
We lucked into a home state/out of state match here, and it made a huge difference in cost for us.