| I wouldn't classify it among the best so to speak, but the University of Texas at Dallas gives out tons of merit based money. They have a great engineering program and I'm told a good business programs (though I have no first hand knowledge ot this). They partner with (were actually founded by) Texas Instruments and if you go into engineering there is a pretty good chance they'll offer you a decent job afterwords.
But for the money. I don't recall the exact numbers , but this years admittees automatically qualify for consideration and nearly everyone with a 1300+ and in the top 10% of their class got a great scholarship (tuition plus $1500 a semester for "books"). They only thing they have to pay is rent (UTD has apartments not dorms). Additionally, they have another scholarship that you can apply for in, November I believe, that pays for everything and gives $3000 a semester for "books" (but they pay for the books for you, so this is pretty much cash) and $50,000 for "studying" (I know several people who used this to backpack across Europe for quite a long period of time) abroad.
As I said, not neccesarily a good school (but they now have some nobel laureates), but I personally think that a good school is good to you ... not some ranking. |