Your Semi-annual Academic Common Market Thread (IN STATE TUITION)

[FCYTravis99]

The WICHE Western Undergraduate Exchange program is extremely broad-based and covers more than 135 public colleges and universities spread across Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, North Dakota and South Dakota. You pay a fixed 150 percent of in-state tuition.

WICHE - Student Exchange Programs

Some universities have restrictions on majors allowed, or on the number of WUE students accepted, but in general, it's the broadest "academic common market"-type system in the country.

[AskMe02]

New Jersey?

[gadad]

Thanks 2collegewego - I checked it out, and it's important to note that not all public universities in a given state are participants. I have a daughter in Georgia applying to U.Va. for a major not offered in Georgia - unfortunately, U.Va. isn't participating in the Academic Common Market, but William & Mary, which also offers the major, is. For students in similar situations, it might be worth checking into this before the end of December to see if you may want to consider a new application.

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[2collegewego]

My daughter just received some mail from the U of Maine. It looks like they give a sizeable tuition discount to residents of New England colleges and Canada.

[premed123]

In New England, most state schools have in-state tuition, out-of-state tuition, and regional tuition, which is only a few thousand more a year.

[UMMBen]

Just like Bemidji State University and Southwest State University, another Minnesota school that offers in-state tuition to all students regardless of state of residency is the University of Minnesota-Morris. In addition Morris provides up to $500 of travel reimbursement to admitted students that live more than 350 miles from campus.
http://www.morris.umn.edu/prospectiv...hips/cost.html

[BCEagle91]

There is a variant of the New England Regional Studies program for out-of-state students and it is based on a distance measurement. If you're closer to an out-of-state institution than the out-of-state institution can offer a rate that's 50% higher than the instate rate. So if you're closer to OOS A and instate is $10K, OOS $20K, you'd pay $15K. But the particular institution has to offer this variant of the NERSP TB.

[uaprophet]

I am from Alabama, took advantage of this program and almost went to Georgia Tech to major in Polymer & Textile Engineering, although I decided on another school. I always make sure I tell any parent I run across with college bound students about this program. It is a shame it isn't advertised as often as it should be. I actually found out about it thanks to Georgia Tech's engineering brochure which mentioned it in small print under some descriptions of the various engineering programs.

[meta]

Academic Common Market is a great program. We live in Virginia, and my son is a freshman at a school in West Virginia that offers a major he can't get in our state. It's saving us quite a bit.

[karp4170]

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I did some searching a few years back and could not find any reciprocity for tuition between New Jersey and any other states.

Here is an interesting article from last spring that might provide some insight.

High school graduates - NJ.com

[chaospaladin]

This is a helpful thread.

[hootie]

Um, I'm a rising senior from Rhode Island and I want to major in Aerospace Engineering.

I researched a bit and it turns out that there are NO public schools in New England that offer ASE...is there anything I can do? I'd love to be able to get a common market discount at an institution like UofMaryland (one school I'm applying to; amazing ASE program) but obviously its not part of New England.