PSA State Community Colleges -- MD, RI, TN, CA, OR, NY

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Just a reminder for residents of the following states: Maryland, Rhode Island, Tennessee, California, New York, Oregon... Remember your state-funded community colleges have no tuition and fees are ridiculously cheap. California caps fees at $46 per unit making all classes under $150 each! New York goes as far as up to a 4-year degree.

Right now with COVID and everyone is online, it is a great time to take advantage of your local community college!

For CA, not all schools participate in giving free tuition - you have to be a first time student for most schools.  For everyone else, it's $46/cr, but that does not equate to less than $150 for ALL courses - it's just for 3cr courses.  Lots of schools have 4cr or 5cr courses (English 101 is 4cr for a LOT of schools, my daughter's is one of those).

Schools were given leeway in how they wanted to use their funds from the Promise program, many gave more money to lower-income students, or gave more money towards books for students, or did a combination of things, so that it's not free at all.

Also, there are 3 quarter-based schools (out of 113), so their costs are $31/cr - but it ends up being the same price overall for a 2yr degree.