Tuition Discounts Lure Students Out of State

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<p>Megan Pritchard decided an MBA with an international focus would get her closer to landing her dream job. After managing sales at a winery for almost two years, she wanted to move on to a French company in a U.S. operations function. Because none of the MBA programs in her home state of Alabama offered an international track with a language component, she started looking at private—and more expensive—schools like Tulane and Thunderbird.</p>

<p>Ultimately she enrolled in the business program at the University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business. Why Moore? In the midst of her MBA search, she learned an exchange agreement between Alabama and South Carolina qualified her for in-state tuition. “It was a huge incentive,” she says of the discounted tuition status, which reduced the cost she would have paid as an out-of-state student by nearly $55,000 over the course of the program. “Without question, I will be able to afford to go to France to look for jobs.”</p>

<p>Tuition</a> Discounts Lure Students Out of State - Businessweek</p>

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<p>Maybe she found something out-of-state that none of her in-state unis offered, and then she became eligible for the tuition deal. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.sreb.org/page/1304/academic_common_market.html[/url]”>Academic Common Market - Southern Regional Education Board;

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<p>In the western states, there is “WUE” - Western Undergrad Exchange
[Western</a> Undergraduate Exchange (WUE) | Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education](<a href=“http://wiche.edu/wue]Western”>http://wiche.edu/wue)</p>

<p>Students who are residents of WICHE states are eligible to request a reduced tuition rate of 150% of resident tuition at participating two- and four-year college programs outside of their home state.
The WUE reduced tuition rate is not automatically awarded to all eligible candidates. Many institutions limit the number of new WUE awards each academic year, so apply early!
WICHE states include: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming.</p>

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<p>Is there something unusual about this that is different than the tuition reciprocity deals that several states have with others? For example, Minnesota and Wisconsin have it. Usually it doesn’t just “lure students out of state”, but also brings students into the state as well. Checking into reciprocity is one of the first things to do in a college search if you think you want to go away from your home state and go to a public university.</p>

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<p>But it is not only reciprocity. DD got a great scholarship from South Carolina that made her cost less than instate here. Once a scholarship was awarded, she automatically became instate tuition and then the scholarship was subtracted from that. There are a number of schools trying to raise their academic profiles and rewarding higher scoring students accordingly. Check out the thread regarding schools with good scholarships.</p>

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<p>Intparent, I was wondering the same thing. This tuition reciprocity has existed for years. All of a sudden it’s news? In the FA forum they are viewed as GOOD because they scratch the itch of students who “must” get out of state but they can do so at a bargain rate.</p>