Best semi-competitive public schools for OOS merit aid (business focus)?

Starting with freshmen entering for Fall 2025, Univ of Arizona is ending its program which keeps tuition at whatever the rate is that it was when you first enrolled at the school. They also stated a little earlier this month that they’re going to be reducing some of their OOS auto-merit scholarships as a way to alleviate some of the ridiculous $250M budget short-fall that occurred this year due to university financial mis-management.

This is a long way of saying 2 things:

  1. Whatever the U of A OOS merit awards are this year? Don’t assume they’ll stay the same for future years.
  2. Even for Arizona in-state students, tuition WILL increase each year and your merit scholarship will NOT increase.

I’m not saying to leave it out of the running at all. But be aware of this so you’re not surprised. U of A has a great business school.

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