Just received the OU NMF package for fall 2018 and it has been subtantially reduced. The housing scholarship is gone. The allowance for tech and study abroad has been reduced by $500 each. Further, the full tuition scholarship has been replaced with paying resident tuition price. So therefore, freshman year for a NMF would cost about 16,000 which is the reduced tuition, room and board and fees.
Are there better deals to be had for Fall 2018 NMF?
UT Dallas still has a great deal. It covers full tuition and $5500 per semester stipend for living expenses as long as you live on campus. If you move off campus the stipend is reduced to $4000 per semester. They also give you up to $6000 for study abroad after your sophomore year. The GPA requirement is either 3.25 or 3.0. The school is great for STEM and business, not so strong in the liberal arts area.
Texas A&M also still pays for tuition including out of state. There are also some other scholarships that you can get to help pay for housing. Those are not guaranteed. I do believe the GPA requirement is 3.5.
I also forgot Texas Tech has an absolute full ride for NMF including tuition, fees, room and board, transportation and a small allowance. You do need to keep a 3.5 GPA .
UNM and Alabama also have great NMF packages.
I believe many Texas publics (with the notable exception of UT Austin) offer very generous NMF packages. Quite a few offer full ride or close. If you’re looking at schools in Oklahoma, I haven’t researched it personally but I think Oklahoma State has a very good NMF package (not sure if it was also affected by the same budget cuts as OU though, so you’d want to research it carefully). U of Tulsa has a nearly-full-ride scholarship that NMF can apply for but it is competitive, not automatic.
University of Kentucky has a good package (full tuition/room and board allowance – if you live on or off campus). But they are changing their scholarships for kids entering in fall of 2018 (with more going towards need based aid and less for merit). Scholarships for 2018 are set to be released August 1st.
UT Tyler gives full rides, as does UNT. We still have OU on our list. we are going to apply and work through the scholarship process. My Daughter reeeeeeeaaaaaaallllly Loves OU and we are going to try and make it work, but $16K is pretty steep. I talked with the assistant director and he was really nice, explaining that for the last 3 years there had been budget cuts everywhere but NMF and it was not fair not to have cuts there as well. I hope the state legislature will reconsider going into next years budget.
UCF has a full ride as well.
OP,
Did you receive it in writing? If so, can you provide more details so I can update my spreadsheet? We are OOS.
Specifically, what is the number for tuition scholarship? What I have now is $19K - i.e. for 2017, OOS tuition was about $19K, fees were about $6K, and the value of scholarship was $19K - full tuition waiver. Fees were not waived.
I can see that the new amount for OOS T&F went up about $1.5K, to a total of about $26.5K. What is the new value of tuition scholarship that I can apply against $26.5K figure?
Thanks!
people following this thread might be interested the discussion here too
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-oklahoma/2006031-changes-in-fall-2018-in-state-nm-package.html#latest
I second the full rides at UNM and Texas Tech. Tech’s is full cost of attendance - tuition, fees, room, board, books, travel and misc. expenses. UNM is tuition & fees, room, board, books and around $800 as a stipend.
Michigan State’s program is a combo of part automatic, part competitive for NMFs, but can add up to a full ride.
My daughter is NM Scholar at UCF - has full cost of attendance covered through graduation, includes housing, food and other expenses based on average cost of attendance, plus a free laptop - she chose apple macbook pro, but they have several options. They offer it in state of Florida via Benaquisto Scholarship and also to out of state. They made a point of telling us that even if Benaquisto gets defunded by state of Florida for some reason, they will offer the full in state scholarship as they did before that. Love the Burnett Honors College - highly recommend.