<p>Are there any colleges where the cost of attendance (tuition, room and board, fees, etc.) around $5,000 - $8,000 per year for international students.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter if it’s a community college, once the college is accredited.</p>
<p>That will just about cover your living expenses. </p>
<p>Are you strong enough to compete for academic scholarships, or need-based financial aid at the top private colleges?</p>
<p>Yes I am. I am paying for everything out of pocket too.</p>
<p>Can someone give me a list please? I tried searching it on this site but it’s not that accurate</p>
<p>A list of what?</p>
<p>There are no colleges with a cost of attendance of $8,000. I was asking about your academic profile because a full-tuition scholarship could get your out-of-pocket cost close to that amount. You might be able to fill the gap with income from summer work and a part-time job during the academic year. </p>
<p>If $8,000 is the very limit that your family could afford, you could also apply to colleges that give need-based financial aid to international students. </p>
<p>How to find colleges with financial aid?</p>
<p>If you are going for need-based aid, most of that is awarded by the top 20 universities and top 50 liberal arts colleges by US News ranking.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, there are no good lists for colleges with merit-based scholarships. Your best bet might be to run a [college</a> search](<a href=“https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/college-search]college”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board) for colleges that gave some sort of financial assistance to international students (there’s a checkbox under “paying”) and then check the resulting list for scholarship opportunities by hand. Many scholarships are only a drop in the bucket (e.g. a $500 scholarship for a junior Latin major showing particular promise), and some will be awarded only to particular groups of students (e.g. athletes or students from a particular country).</p>
<p>Thanks for your help.</p>
<p>Actually, there are U.S. schools with a cost of attendance of less than $9,000 for a decent out of state or international student. Here’s one that I know: University of Southern Indiana [url=<a href=“http://www.usi.edu/about]About[/url”>About USI - University of Southern Indiana]About[/url</a>] The “non-resident top scholar” pays the same tuition as in-state. All it takes to get this rate is the following: Earn a minimum SAT score of 1700 (with writing component), 1100 (without writing component) or a composite ACT score 25. If you put the cheapest housing into the cost calculator, it all comes to less than 9K. Don’t give up!</p>
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That’s billed expenses, not cost of attendance. Health insurance, airfare and personal expenses will add a few thousand dollars.</p>
<p>University of Southern Indiana is actually $25,138 per year, got that info from one of their reps.</p>
<p>The cheapest college I found so far was Hill College in Hillsboro, TX</p>
<p>Which is $8,000 per year including tuition, board, room</p>
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<p>Airfare isn’t a problem for me. I live in the U.S Virgin Islands, therefor I pay domestic airfare rates.</p>
<p>i am also searching for a 5,000- 8,000 USD Community College! Thanks for giving us HOPE. :)</p>
<p>Looked into Berea College yet?</p>
<p>Free tuition and campus jobs. Check the place out.</p>
<p>Yeah. Berea accepts about 30 new international students each year, with over 1,000 international applicants it’ll be hard to get in.</p>
<p>Actually, asking “what does college cost?” is the wrong question. The correct question is “What will I have to pay?” </p>
<p>For example, there are six schools that simultaneously offer need-blind admissions, and guarantee to meet the full financial need of all admitted students (there are many more that will make that offer for Americans). If you can get into Harvard, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, or Amherst, then the price tag is not really an issue. Of course, that is a substantial “if”.</p>
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Not really true. All need-based aid assumes that you actually have all of the financial resources at your disposal that you could theoretically have at your disposal. Just because your family is technically able to pay $60,000 a year for college doesn’t mean that they will actually give you the money.</p>
<p>“Yeah. Berea accepts about 30 new international students each year, with over 1,000 international applicants it’ll be hard to get in.”</p>
<p>Never hurt to try though</p>
<p>If you live in the US Virgin Islands aren’t you considered a US citizen? In which case you shouldnt be worrying about international financial aid?</p>
<p>ok so i will be living in georgia and i was trying to go to school their but it was saying i have to pay 17,000 upon registration for school…is this accurate for international students to pay this such amount at one time…also it had something bout a bank something, whats that all about…please help me out wit info</p>
<p>do anybody stay in georgia and was able to go to school without paying 17,000???</p>
<p>$17,000 is probably one semester (1/2 year) of tuition and room and board fees and would be due at the start of the school year. This amount would be consistent with the average price of college in the U.S. The “bank something” probably refers to a letter from from your family’s bank which confirms you have the funds needed to support your studies in the U.S. This letter is needed to obtain the U.S. government student visa.</p>