July 29, 2016

Dallas-area students can now get in-state tuition at Wichita State

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  • A new is now offering Kansas in-state tuition to eligible students in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area.
  • Students can save more than $8,700 a year with this new rate.
  • 14 Texas counties are included in the area.

Residents of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area now can attend 麻豆传媒 for the same cost as Kansas residents.

The tuition assistance program - called Shocker City Partnership - applies to residents of the following counties in Texas: Collin, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant, Wise, Somervell and Hood.

The tuition rate applies to undergraduate and graduate students. Undergraduate students enrolling in 15 hours per semester would save more than $8,700 per year with this new rate. Graduate students enrolling in nine hours per semester save more than $3,700 per year.

Shocker City Partnership was rolled out in 2015 for Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma, residents.

Students from Texas and Oklahoma who live in counties outside the Dallas-Fort Worth, Oklahoma City and Tulsa metropolitan areas are still eligible for the program, which gives eligible students a 33 percent discount off nonresident tuition.

With these two programs, Wichita State is the most affordable large research university in the area.

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