Best full ride NMSF colleges

celesteroberts
Thu, 08 Jan 2015 21:36:53 +0000

The Bama scholarship offer requires careful reading. It is complicated, with full tuition paid for 5 years + $3500 stipend for 4 years. It is almost a full ride the first year(within $1000 if you don’t consider books and personal), the only year housing is paid for. It was a 4 year full ride until a couple of years ago but has changed. Still a great deal.

We’ve been looking at Bama for S. The $3500 will cover the mandatory(unless you pledge or get some other authorized exemption) freshman meal plan- $3266/academic year, plus a bit of the approximately $800 college/course fees. There is also mandatory deposit of $650 into dining $$ account each year, but you can get that back at end of year if not spent. After the first year you can spend your food money as you like and presumably make the $3500 stretch farther if necessary.

That $2500 extra you mention is for engineering students, right? Does anyone else get that? I suppose there might be some additional scholarship money from other depts.