<p>My mom said "state schools" are skimpy on financial aid. What exactly are state schools? Would University of Iowa be considered a "state school?"</p>
<p>I figure that a school such as Iowa State University would be considered a state school, but University of Iowa would not. Am I correct?</p>
<p>Those are both state schools. those are public universities.</p>
<p>Also, many privates don’t give a lot of aid either. </p>
<p>And, some privates can only reduce their costs to about what it costs at a public…which is good, but that wouldn’t save you any money overall.</p>
<p>What state are you in? Iowa?</p>
<p>I think Iowa St and U Iowa give merit scholarships.</p>
<p>^^Um generally anything with the state in it’s name is a state school. For each state, there are generally two main ones. The University of <a href=“also%20sometimes%20%5BState%5D%20University”>State</a> and [State] State University. Example: the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University, respectively. Or Indiana University and Indiana State University, respectively. There are also schools like Western Illinois University, or University of Illinois Chicago, or California State Fullerton. </p>
<p>The simplest named school is generally the flagship (which means pretty much the most prestigious). So the University of Iowa (aka Iowa) is Iowa’s flagship while University of Northern Iowa is not. Generally, the University of [State] is more prestigious than [State] State University. </p>
<p>I hope I’m right here. Or else I’ll feel pretty stupid.</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania is an exception, Penn is a private university. The public/state universities in Pennsylvania are Penn State, University of Pittsburgh, and others. While Pitt is a state school, the University of Chicago is private. Go figure. To find out for sure if a college is private or public, go to their website or look it up on the CB College Search function.</p>
<p>Also New York University is a private university (aka not a state school or public university, I’m not sure if those two are the same). Yeah but Iowa is definitely a state school.</p>
<p>I believe that a state school refers to a public school in the state you live in. If it’s public, you won’t pay as much as an out-of-state student (you’ll usually pay about a fourth of what they would pay). Virginia has a program in which you’ll get a guaranteed amount of money if you go to a private Virginia college if you are an in-state student (I don’t know if other states have similar programs)</p>
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I don’t think so. I’m from Illinois. If I went to the University of California (Berkeley), I’d still be attending a state school. Just not my state school.</p>
<p>A state school is a school that is partially subsidized by the tax payers of the state in which it is located. A student whose family lives in that state will receive in-state tuition at a state school. A student from another state who attends a state school outside of his or her home state will pay out of state (OOS) tuition. </p>
<p>Generally speaking, even OOS tuition at many state schools is less than the cost of attendance (COA) at a private university, and in-state COA certainly is less than the COA at a private university. However, some private universities and colleges have financial aid (and/ or merit aid) that can make the costs more comparable… some students may even receive a merit aid package that makes an OOS public or a private college or university more affordable than an in state public… it all depends. This is why it is important to explore all of your options.</p>
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<p>Pitt is “state-related” meaning it is privately operated and governed and it retains ownership of its assets, unlike traditional state universities. In-state students get their tuition subsidized by the state, and the state funds some if its capital budget which is why it is categorized as “public”. This is the same arrangement the state has with Temple, Lincoln and Penn State, which is relatively unique between colleges and states in the US. Pitt and Temple were fully private until the mid-1960s when they entered into this arrangement with Pennsylvania. The University of Pennsylvania is the oldest in the state, and by the modern understanding of the definition, has always been private. Pitt was was actually founded to be a version of Penn for the western side of the state, hence it was known as the Western University of Pennsylvania until 1908. Penn State was founded as Farmers High School, and became the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania when it was awarded land funding through the state, so it has had a longer association with the state than any other of the “state-relateds”, although it still is not fully “public”.</p>
<p>Usually, “state school” has come to mean any institution supported by the taxpayers of a state that offers reduced tuition to state residents in return. Both U Iowa and Iowa State are public.</p>
<p>States also have specific “land-grant” colleges, which were started with federal support in the form of land under the Morrill Act. These often - but not always - include the “X State University”. In Iowa, Iowa State is the land-grant school.</p>
<p>I will second the following:
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<p>Pennsylvania is just a weird state. You can only buy a bottle of wine in a state store!</p>
<p>I believe that the Univ of Michigan is also a “state-related,” as opposed to a state-owned university, in the same sense that Pitt, PSU and Temple are in PA.</p>
<p>@DunninLA - You can now buy wine in a select number of grocery stores in PA!! (Although the state’s Liquor Control Board just shut those down due to a “software glitch.” lol)</p>
<p>Now as to PA being a weird state - you’ll get no argument from me!</p>
<p>Thanks for the clarification on Pitt wgmcp, very interesting! I noticed that they do have state schools called the “University of Pennsylvania [location]”, I suppose that these are fully public??</p>
<p>How about Cornell? I would guess that some of the Colleges within the university were originally land grant and those are now the public part of C??</p>
<p>Pennsylvania is absolutely a weird state in a lot of respects.</p>
<p>The University of Michigan is a different breed, but not like the Pennsylvania “state-relateds”. It’s governing board is independent of the state’s legislature, but is actually directly elected statewide by the people of Michigan (as are schools in Colorado, Nebraska & Nevada). It really is fully public in the most democratic sense of the word. The president of Michigan presides as an ex officio member with no vote, for a total of nine members.</p>
<p>Cornell is a hybrid of sorts, like the Pennsylvania schools (known as the Commonwealth System of Higher Education), but it is broken up along the lines of the university’s constituent colleges, where only four of its 13 are “statuatory colleges” are in the SUNY system (Ag & Life Sciences, Human Ecology, Industrial & Labor Relations, Vet). It is probably the most similar example to the Pennsylvania Commonwealth schools, but structured somewhat differently.</p>
<p>The fully “public” state-owned and operated colleges in Pennsylvania are in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (as opposed to the above mentioned Commonwealth System) and this includes 14 universities across the state, most of which were founded as normal schools and still largely known for teacher training. These are typically located in small towns and include schools such as Bloomsburg, Clarion, IUP, Lock Haven, Shippensburg, Slippery Rock and West Chester. Their names are typically in the form of Xtown University of Pennsylvania. All of them are categorized in US News’ “regional university” category except for IUP. If you are familiar with the two level system in California, with the UC and Cal States, the Commonwealth schools would be similar to the UCs, while the State System is similar to Cal State, more or less…sort of a two tier level of systems. A major difference being that the Commonwealth schools are each fully independent of each other, while the State system has chancellor and board of trustees overseeing the whole system (like the California systems do, as they are both fully state/public schools).</p>