New Mexico goes tuition-free

[Alpha]

New Mexico becomes the first state to go tuition-free for state residents at state schools.
New Mexico Is the First State To Implement Free College Education | BELatina

[sialiblo]

Wow this is huge, seems no string attached? Like must work with in NM for N years or something along those lines. hopefully other states follows

[ashkir]

They had a close thing in New Mexico for many years. When I lived there as a teenager, the state started a program. Graduate from high school in New Mexico as a state citizen, get free tuition to a state college.

Glad to see they expanded this to residence.

New Mexico used to be an extremely uneducated state. Their government took a chance, and, learned if kids get a college degree, often times they come back to their home communities, and, lift up the local economies.

[bjcheung77]

Didn't they have the NC Promise program or something like that before this? I think there was another state with a program as well, it all depends on state, I think the NC Promise was the first two years free or something, I may need to review that again.

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OK, here's the NC program mentioned: https://homeschoolingforcollegecredit.co...-carolina/

[carrythenothing]

Didn't they have the NC Promise program or something like that before this?  I think there was another state with a program as well, it all depends on state, I think the NC Promise was the first two years free or something, I may need to review that again.

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OK, here's the NC program mentioned: https://homeschoolingforcollegecredit.co...-carolina/

Or https://www.northcarolina.edu/future-stu...c-promise/

Through NC Promise, the state has significantly reduced student tuition cost to $500 per semester at four UNC System institutions: Elizabeth City State University, Fayetteville State University, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and Western Carolina University.

[studyingfortests]

New Mexico had a no-tuition-increase guarantee for enrolled students at its state schools, but sunsetted it in 2020 for new students.

They also have a really interesting arrangement where out-of-state residents pay in-state tuition rates for 6 credits/semester or less, and everybody gets really cheap tuition (at least at WNMU) during the summer. Something like $250/credit hour at the graduate level.

So, for example, in the 2 year social work masters, if you are willing to go for 3 years instead of 2, you can get a really cheap masters degree (something like 18 grand all in) vs about 32 grand if you are out-of-state and go for two years.

It's awesome if they are now making all higher education free for residents. I wonder if that applies to graduate programs?

[dfrecore]

CA generally has CC's free for recent CA HS grads.

[Carnation]

CA generally has CC's free for recent CA HS grads.

Actually this isn't true.

Every Community College gets to decide how they want to use the California Promise funding.
They can use the funds for student support services for example.
The CC's aren't free where I live.

I wish there were a list somewhere that identified which community colleges offered free tuition because I would have my son take courses online through them.

[carrythenothing]

CA generally has CC's free for recent CA HS grads.

Actually this isn't true.

Every Community College gets to decide how they want to use the California Promise funding.
They can use the funds for student support services for example.
The CC's aren't free where I live.

I wish there were a list somewhere that identified which community colleges offered free tuition because I would have my son take courses online through them.

https://cccapply.org/en/money/california...mise-grant

[Carnation]

CA generally has CC's free for recent CA HS grads.

Actually this isn't true.

Every Community College gets to decide how they want to use the California Promise funding.
They can use the funds for student support services for example.
The CC's aren't free where I live.

I wish there were a list somewhere that identified which community colleges offered free tuition because I would have my son take courses online through them.

https://cccapply.org/en/money/california...mise-grant

Thanks!
As I suspected, none are from my county.
Still a longer list than I was expecting.
Based on that list, 37% of community colleges in CA use CA Promise to lower tuition and not for other purposes.
Still pretty far from "CA generally has CC's free for recent CA HS grads."