Instate Tuition Out of State if My State School Doesn't Offer my Major?

Paying for College
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I heard the sometimes you can get instate tuition at another state school if your home state school doesn’t offer your major. I’m from Connecticut and they don’t offer an international relations major. I’m most likely going to University of Michigan next year. Does anyone know how I can look more into this???

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You won’t get instate tuition at University of Michigan as a CT resident…regardless of your major. Those two colleges do not participate in any reciprocal arrangement or academic common market together.

There is an international studies major at Central Ct State University.

As a CT resident, if you had chosen a college in one of the New England states that has an agreement with Connecticut…you MIGHT have been able to get instate tuition…or a reduction anway.

But University of Michigan…no.

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I know at least a dozen kids who have studied “international relations” at U Conn. It does NOT need to be called “international relations”. You can major in Econ, get fluent in a foreign language, and take several poli sci classes on relevant topics- boom, international relations. You can major in poli sci, take several courses in the history of the regions you are interested in, again, more foreign languages and boom- international relations.

If you haven’t gone through the course catalog at U Conn to see the hundred plus courses relevant to “international relations”, you need to do that.

Every single flagship U in the country offers “international relations” but they don’t all call it that. You need to read the course catalog.

And no- Michigan won’t offer you instate. Sorry.

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@thumper1 yeah it’s my bad for not applying to appropriate schools

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@blossom cool thanks!

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U Maine has the flagship match program

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@mommdc it doesn’t appear that this student applied to U of Maine. The major there is international affairs…but yes, if the student had applied, she could have been eligible for the flagship match…and could have paid the cost of tuition for attending UConn (plus room and board).

They also could study international affairs at Central Connecticut State University, which is quite inexpensive relatively speaking, for instate students.

http://www.ccsu.edu/internationalstudies/

But this student seems to want University of Michigan and wrongly thought that they might be able to get instate tuition status in Michigan. That’s not going to happen.