<p>Younger D has a lot of OOS publics potentially on her list. Universities facing state budget shortfalls will undoubtedly take hard looks at their OOS tuitions and raise them accordingly.<br>
Wondering if anyone has heard any announcements of next year's OOS tuition rates for the Big Ten and for other "desirable" publics like North Carolina?</p>
<p>I know UNC has a cap of 6% for tuition raises and they recently said it would be lower than that for next year...</p>
<p>Right -- but don't caps usually just exist for in-state taxpayers (and rightly so?) Can't most schools do whatever they want with OOS tuition?</p>
<p>Clarification here -- I am not trying to say "oh, poor me, poor out-of-staters." I am not complaining about OOS rates. I am just trying to gather information so that I can present it to my daughter. She's a pretty reasonable kid -- if the OOS is very high, she will probably be willing to strike schools off the list.</p>
<p>It seems that many publics don't publish their rates until midsummer after their budgets get passed. It seems like it would be hard to guess who will do what....I am hoping that my d's OOS public does not raise it too much, although I am trying to be mentally prepared for the worst!
One of the schools my d was considering last year was crossed off of the list because they had a history of raising the OOS rates every year and basically stated that the OOS students were going to bear the burden overwhelmingly in the future as well. She felt that it would be a bad idea to continue pursuing that route! Thank goodness.
My older d is at an OOS public that offered her in-state tuition with her scholarship and that gave us a lot more comfort since those rates tend to go up a lot less.</p>
<p>NY just raised OOS tuition by 20%! You're smart to be weighing this. I'll also add that I'd be thinking about all of the budget cuts comming down in the value analysis. In CA, it's now understood this will make CSUs very hard to get out of in 4 years.</p>
<p>hmom5, NY OOS is still well below market for their better SUNYs. The real question people should be asking is will NY start to charge different $$ for the top sunys and will teh OOS go up 20% every year. Personally, my opinion is it one thing to raise tuition to get it to market, but existing students should be grandfathered and only pay an inflation increase -- or same increase as IS.</p>
<p>UW system will have its rates set in the summer. This week the governor's proposed state budget has clauses to help keep tuition stable for middle to lower income instate students. OOS tuition will probably go up- it is relatively cheap in comparison to its public peers I have heard. The good news is no dire changes in funding the state colleges that I've heard. Some states seem to be making massive changes that will affect quality- something else to consider.</p>
<p>Our D will be attending Georgia Tech this coming fall (OOS). One of the bonuses is that once enrolled, the tuition is locked in for the next four years, although housing & meal plans are not. Still, that is a big chuck to be saved considering the overall annual increases at most schools. The following is taken from their website:</p>
<p>Guaranteed Tuition</p>
<p>On April 18, 2006, the Board of Regents (the governing board for the university system in Georgia) approved a “Fixed for Four” program that aims to give students and parents more certainty in planning for college tuition. The plan allows first time freshmen to lock into a fixed tuition at the time you enter Georgia Tech and maintain that fixed tuition for four years.</p>
<p>This is a wonderful opportunity to lock in a tuition rate that will allow you and your family to budget for the next four years at Georgia Tech without any surprises or increases.</p>
<p>For more information, please visit Fixed</a> for Four Continues – Regents Commit to Second Year of Guaranteed Tuition; Adopt Record Budget for Meeting Enrollment Growth - Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.</p>
<p>When I was a student at the University of Texas several decades ago, out of state tuition tripled while I was there! Keep in mind, that as a freshman and sophomore, we only paid $40 a credit hour (or 600 a semester for a full load). Even back then, this was an incredible bargain. In state, by the way was $4 an hour.</p>
<p>As a junior it jumped to $80 an hour and as a senior to $120.</p>
<p>You are a non voting consituency... so while some states like GA have guarantees and others have caps, there is nothing to say the state legislature might not choose to stick it to out of state students.</p>
<p>Yes, University of Illinois has a four year guarantee but I'm not sure it extends to OOS.
On another note, how can people commit to a school by May 1st if the tuition rate is not announced until midsummer?</p>
<p>The $2700 increase in one year, was enough to scare us away from the SUNYs. We had already looked at one before the news. Sunys are now over 27k for out of state.</p>
<p>dbwes- My daughter's school had listed the "estimated tuition and fees pending budget approval " months before it was actually approved. I just crossed my fingers that the actual was going to be close to the estimate and it did stay the same. I do not know what will happen for the next 3 years and that does scare me a bit.
For the school I mentioned above that was daunting for OOS students, I did some googling with the terms "out of state" and "non-resident" with the name of the school and found articles for the previous few years regarding their stance on OOS students. Some were about student protests to increases etc, but provided enough background that we took that school off of her list. I would recommend you try that for any OOS public you would be considering.</p>
<p>UNC</a> System approves tuition increases - Triangle Business Journal:</p>
<p>"The University of North Carolina System Board of Governors on Friday approved tuition increases for the system’s 16 universities.</p>
<p>At UNC-Chapel Hill, in-state students would pay $3,856, a 4.3 percent increase. Out of state students would pay $21,753, up 5.6 percent."</p>
<p>NC State $16,438 OOS $3,953 in-state
North Carolina Central University $12,333 OOS $2,264 in-state</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>PA Mom is right -- many schools won't publish 2009-2010 rates until Summer. My home state flagship and D's OOS are both "waiting for the Legislature." Until the current financial crisis hit I budgeted for six percent higher each year. Last year's nine percent tuition increase for OOS students was an eye-opener. And that was pre-crisis! So yes, I think this is an issue worth watching.</p>
<p>It really is worth watching because publics do not try to meet the financial need of their OOS students. Their priority is the instate student. If one's efc is 20k, and the OOS public is charging 30k, and your child is not going to get a merit award, you might be better off financially sending your child to a private school that meets as much financial need as possible, and/or will award merit aid.</p>
<p>The other thing to keep in mind, is that this can happen without warning in the middle of your child's time at the school. My friend really struggled with the last 2 years of her D's time at C of Charleston, when the OOS cost skyrocketed without warning. She had a set of twins going into college at that time. None of this helped their EFC in terms of grants, and as Northeastmom says, publics do not tend to meet need anyways. In a case like my friend's, privates were very competitive in price with 3 kids in college. Not that any of it was windfall, as the cost for her kids going to their own state schools just about equaled their EFC so it all came out to be about the same anyways. That's the way it often works. Had she had the oldest in their own state system, the costs could have be lower. Or if Cof C had kept their rates for OOSers in line, it would have helped too.</p>
<p>Yes, I really wish my daughter's school had a program to lock in rates....I do think there is a risk when going in as an OOS student, but we took the risk and are just hoping it isn't too painful.
I didn't realize CofC had jumped a lot - that was one of D 1's top schools...also Elon was her next choice ,and though private and not public OOS as we are discussing, they raised their tuition substantially the year after she would have gone. I was even more relieved she had chosen the financially best option!</p>
<p>The University of Kansas also has a 4 year tuition compact that applies to both instate and out of state students-8 semststers at your incoming rate. You can lock in R&B for 2 years at a slightly higher rate (+2%) than the current year's plan. I believe the programs started with the 2007 incoming class, and has been great for budgeting college costs.</p>
<p>URichmond and Wake Forest used to be a good price compared to other privates but they have jacked up their costs substantially. I think Rhodes and Elon did the same. In VA, the top publics have a big surcharge for OOSers.</p>