I looked at a number of the schools that are IFT-approved programs for food science along with ABET-accredited for chemical engineering that I thought had the greatest odds of meeting budget. The chart below shows what I found
School
Tuition & Fees
Room & Board
Likely Scholarship
Direct-Billed minus Scholarship
Kansas State
$28,568
$12,830
$14,155
$27,243
Iowa State
$28,881
$10,808
$15,000
$24,689
North Carolina A&T
$20,673
$8,832
Unknown
North Dakota State
$15,764
$9,928
$2,000
$23,692
South Dakota State
$12,809
$10,176
$3,000
$19,985
Florida A&M
$17,725
$12,328
Unknown
Oklahoma State
$25,754
$11,230
$13,000
$23,984
U. of Arkansas*
$29,966
$14,244
$27,569
U. of Idaho
$28,320
$11,243
$16,000
$23,563
*U. of Arkansas: The direct-billed price is based on its website with the scholarship whereas the other schools’ had their SY24-25 prices used from College Navigator minus the scholarships.
Essentially, your in-state publics are likely to give you the best deal in terms of public colleges (which is unsurprising as publics are designed to provide the greatest advantage to their own residents).
The other school that is not in this chart is Tuskegee. It’s been mentioned upthread, but you’d be eligible for the full ride (source). It’s an excellent school, ABET-accredited for chemical engineering, and IFT-approved for food science.
For source information on the table above, please see below:
Yes, and some posters aren’t keeping this in mind. This student has a budget of ~$13K (if they take the federal student loan; $7.5K budget with no loan)[/quote]
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I agree that affordability is the primary issue. A secondary issue is the majors he’s interested in, the combination of which is available at a limited number of colleges.
We don’t know what this student will receive in the way of scholarships and/or financial aid, but his combination of achievements and life circumstances create a wide range of possibilities. Applications to less selective colleges where he is one of the top applicants will increase the chances that he will find a college that will value him and offer him a financial package which will cover all costs or close to that.
I think that his strategy should be to apply to as long a list of colleges as he can afford and which match his academic goals in an effort to find the one that will provide maximum affordability. A father posted here last week that his son applied to 70 colleges in order to find the one that they could afford. While that is extreme, it’s that kind of thinking that needs to be employed here. I don’t think that this is the stage to be eliminating schools from his list fir the most part.