Best Universities and Colleges with Free Tuition?

If you were here online where I could ask you some questions, this answer might be more direct. As it is, I'll set up a couple of situations and see if one of these fits what you have in mind. If you are a high school student and have time to plan, I answered a question similar to this recently on Mahalo.It was the best answer, so it's the one at the top of the page.

It had to do with getting into ivy league colleges. Yes they are very expensive if you can pay, but if you can't and you've been accepted, they may fund you. mahalo.com/answers/education/how-to-get-... Look at the other page for more detail, but I'll sum it up here: If your grades are very good, and if you have a plan, if you're patient and very organized and get started early, you can apply to a lot of these ivy league schools and see if you're accepted.

If your family is low income, you can apply and have the admission fees waived (see each school's site--it often means filing a paper application instead of online). Many of them have a policy regarding students they accept: if you will be a good fit in that school, they will fund students who don't have the financial means. This isn't necessarily free, it is based upon the parent's income, but if your parents have a low income, the result can be a free education.

If you apply to the various high caliber schools (Ivy League and their ilk) you often use the Common Application. Https://commonapp.org/CommonApp/default.aspx . It won't cost you to use that if you file for fee waivers or mail those application forms with the waiver request, but along the way you will also need to file documents with the College Board (SAT) folks, and there are fees involved there.

They are one of the testing agencies, but they also have a lot to do with gaining additional funding at schools. You'll have to read their requirements if you qualify for any reductions or waivers with them. collegeboard.com/ There have been other schools listed in other answers that you apply to and they, by intent, have free admission (no tuition) for all, but there aren't very many of them.

Another answer gives the example of a couple of schools in Washington state, but that is an incomplete answer and kind of misleading, in that it you might think that those schools typically would offer that kind of funding, and they don't. A riff on that example, though, will hopefully give you some ideas about getting into a school fully funded, or funded so that with grants, scholarships, and work study, the result is almost free. File the paperwork for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA - http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/ - be sure you go to the dot GOV site, not the dot com site.

The dot com site wants to charge you $80 to do what you can do for free on the GOV site! ) This discussion so far has had to do with going through the usual applications that everyone must use, and simply having your fees and tuition waived because of your funding situation or by earning grants and scholarships. Now for one of the lesser-known approaches.

I work at a university where my children can attend as undergraduates for half price. This is a big deal at a state university in the University of Texas System, we didn't have this perk until recently. I can also attend half-price.

But there are other schools out there where if you are an employee or you are the child of an employee, you _CAN ATTEND FOR FREE_. Several years ago I was very close to accepting at job at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque because I was considering pursuing a Ph.D.. Employees there may take 2 (two) graduate level courses a semester for free. If you're interested in school and need to work, this is a great way to do it (and two classes a semester in graduate school is probably as much as you can handle if you're working full time).

Undergraduate students I think have an allowance they can draw down each year, and I'm not sure how many classes they can take, but it was more per year. Graduate school is usually a lot more expensive than undergraduate and take a lot more work. Here in North Texas I have friends who have actually taken jobs at Texas Christian University so their children could go to college at TCU free.

If you have a parent who could do that, they'd have to research the schools in your area to find this kind of offer. If they can afford to take a job at the school (some don't pay well but they typically have good benefits), look for schools that offer this perk to employees. You yourself also can apply to universities with this offer to employees and fund your education by working and gaining experience all at once.

Since you haven't gone to school yet you won't be applying for the upper level positions, but I think you might be surprised at the steady turnover in the trades on campus. If you have graduated from high school and are in good standing and willing to start in an entry-level position (be sure to list any work experience you already have, and build on that) you can get your education and get work experience and benefits at the same time. I like the U.S. News and World Reports ranking of schools.

You can get a lot from the free pages, but you can pay a nominal (~$15) fee and get a lot more. http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges Look at the rankings and see if any are near you, or there are any that would tempt you to relocate. You can apply to work at the school and move there if you get the job.

Universities are like small cities, so you'll find jobs across the board: maintenance, electrician, plumber, groundskeeper, library positions, food service, cashiers, administrative assistants of all sorts, clerks, mechanics, postal jobs, tellers, and the list goes on. This is how I chose to go through graduate school, and as it happens, that job I took has grown and evolved and I ended up staying with the university after I got my MA. I started working in the library at 3/4 time and was able to pay for classes and get good health insurance at the same time.

Depending on the job you're doing, you can often get a flexible schedule and work around your classes (if not, take night classes). And some course work, if it ties into what you've been hired to do, can be treated as part of your job and you take your class as part of the job. You'll have to shop around to find these offers.

Be glad that there _ISN'T_ a list of these kinds of schools and jobs, or you'd have a lot more people to compete with to get these jobs and perks. Go online to visit the schools that interest you, and go to the faculty and staff pages to see what the human resources department pages say about staff benefits. And good luck!

If you can finish school while you work and do it without loans, you will be so far ahead of the competition when you finish and look for another job, if that's what you choose to do.

According to diplomaguide. Co, the lists below are the 10 Colleges and Universities with $0.00 Tuition: 1. Berea College, Each student that enrolls at Berea College is entitled to full-tuition scholarship estimated at least $25,000.2.

Alice Lloyd College, "The school guarantees tuition in every student within the coverage of 108-county Central Appalachian service area. 3. Webb Institute, "This institution specializes quality engineering curriculum together with full-tuition scholarships to any student that will enroll." 4.

College of the Ozarks, "This school has earned a monicker as 'Hardwork U' , in this school students graduate tuition free by working 15 hours per week.5. Curtis Institute of Music, this institute guarantees full tuition scholarship who gains entry.6. CUNY Teacher Academy, this institute guarantees full tuition scholarship who gains entry.

7.U.S. Academies, this institute guarantees full tuition scholarship who gains entry. * U.S. Military Academy * U.S. Air Force Academy * U.S.Naval Academy * U.S. Coast Guard Academy * U.S. Merchant Marine Academy 8. State of Washington Universities, the two universities "offer need-based programs that pay full-tuition and fees.

" * University of Washington * Washington State University 9. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, this institute guarantees full tuition scholarship who gains entry.10.

University of the People, "The University of the People is the world's first tuition-free, non-profit online university.

I know that Cooper Union has free tuition, yet it's very competitive to get into.

I would say that the best one is the one that's accessible worldwide and is tuition-free (but with very small fees depending on your country of residence). And it's the University of the People. I have first heard it from Karen Schweitzer and I feel this is indeed a great idea since there are a lot who are into online/distance learning already.

See businessmajors.about.com/b/2009/01/28/wo... . Here's the UoPeople's 'about us': "University of the People (UoPeople) is the world’s first tuition free online academic institution dedicated to the global advancement and democratization of higher education. The high-quality low-cost global educational model embraces the worldwide presence of the Internet and dropping technology costs to bring university level studies within reach of millions of people across the world.

With the support of respected academics, humanitarians and other visionaries, the UoPeople student body represents a new wave in global education. " uopeople.org/ACADEMICS/CourseCatalog/Gen... I'm considering the 4-year program in Business Administration.

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