Out of State Financial Aid

Gator88NE
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 12:19:56 +0000

Use UF’s Net Price Calculator to get a sense of your cost.

https://npc.collegeboard.org/student/app/ufl

UF does award a few OOS scholarships (tuition discounts), but it’s not many. They also will award some grant maoney based on your “need”.

They award 3 level’s of OOS scholarships. Here is the amounts and how many students where awarded the scholarships.

Alumni: $8,000 a year, awarded to 52 students
Sunshine: $16,000 a year, awarded to 47 students
Gator Nation: $20,000 a year, awarded to 38 students.

It’s fairly cheap to apply to UF ($30 + cost of sending test results), so you could apply and see what awards they may offer.

UF uses the coalition App, which can also be used at several other schools.

Other Florida schools (FSU, USF, UCF, etc.) are much more likely to offer you substantial merit awards. USF and UCF have very strong engineering programs, while FSU would award you a OOS tuition waiver (bringing tuition down to $6,300 a year) plus a freshman scholarship (last year, it was $9,600 over 4 years).

Mississippi State University is a good in-state option, so you should be using it to compare to your OOS options.

Lets compare MSU to USF and UCF:

US News Rankings:
MSU: Ranked 176, undergraduate engineering is ranked 105
UCF: Ranked 176, undergraduate engineering is ranked 91
USF: Ranked 159, undergraduate engineering is ranked 119

Graduation Rate (6 year):
MSU: 60.4%
UCF: 69.2%
USF: 67.2%

AVG High School GPA:
MSU: 3.28
UCF: 3.81
USF: 3.86

Median SAT:
MSU: 1,106
UCF: 1,175
USF: 1,168

UCF and USF are more selective schools. UCF’s engineering department is the largest (143 tenured faculty and awarded 1,154 BS degree’s in engineering, in 2016), while USF (118 tenured faculty and 510 BS degrees) and MSU (114 and 549 BS degrees) are about the same size.

You should also apply to either UCF or USF (USF will offer slightly better financial aid, UCF is larger), as well as UF. USF offers Chem Engineering, while UCF offers Aerospace engineering. MSU offers most of the programs offered at UCF/USF. UF offers engineering programs not offered at any of these three schools, like Nuclear, Materials, Biomedical, etc.

Other than look at UF, FSU, UCF and USF for “Florida” schools, you can look at other OOS schools, such as the University of Alabama,

Good Luck!