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UTEP is one of the lowest cost universities in the country? How do you figure? Their COA for a resident living on campus is almost $20k. Granted, if you factor out all the non-direct costs, it drops to around $15k, but still, equivalent in state costs at my alma marter were about $2500 per year cheaper, and I’ve seen at least one other with comparable/slightly cheaper IS COA. These are probably tuition outliers, yes, but I’m still legitimately curious about where you got that stat. </p>
<p>[Cost</a> of Attendance](<a href=“The University of Texas at El Paso - UTEP”>The University of Texas at El Paso - UTEP)</p>
<p>Nits aside, I agree that the OP might want to look into UTEP or UT-PB, which has the same free tuition for low income students offer as well looking at “full need” schools and/or a few financial reach schools that don’t guarantee to but may meet full need.</p>