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!

Show me the cheap OR CC tuition rates?

Yeah, as a New Yorker, I'd love to see all these freebies, too. State schools are hundreds of dollars per credit plus fees for residents, plus you have to go in person to get a certificate of residence signed by your country treasurer in order to even get that in-state resident tuition.

My local NYC colleges don't demand the certificate, but it's still hundreds of dollars per credit, plus fees.

This fall I looked at my local community college and wanted to take American Sign Language as my foreign language I need to graduate. The course was over $700 for 3 credits. That's just tuition and fees. I still needed to buy the book which was well over $100. I said forget it. I'll take whatever UMPI offers. It's much cheaper. Oh I forgot I would need to go get the stupid certificate of residency. My town hall has been closed most of this time so I don't even know how I would have gotten it. The certificate of residency is such a pain in the arse. I wish the state would do away with it. I mean if you have a valid NYS license or nondriver ID card, isn't that enough?  

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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!

Show me the cheap OR CC tuition rates?

Yeah, as a New Yorker, I'd love to see all these freebies, too. State schools are hundreds of dollars per credit plus fees for residents, plus you have to go in person to get a certificate of residence signed by your country treasurer in order to even get that in-state resident tuition.

My local NYC colleges don't demand the certificate, but it's still hundreds of dollars per credit, plus fees.

Might be talking about this? https://www.ny.gov/programs/tuition-free...cholarship

https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-02113

What the website says and what's reality are 2 entirely different things. Only a few thousand people have actually gotten to use the Excelsior Scholarship. If you've EVER taken a single college course, the rules are different. You have to have been a full time student every year since you FIRST went to college. You have to agree to stay in NY for a minimum of 5 years after you graduate also. There's other stipulations as well. No one I know has actually received this scholarship even kids straight out of high school and into a SUNY school. It's a farce. The maximum award amount is $5,500 and tuition at the closest 4 year SUNY campus is $7,700 plus the fees! If you receive a TAP award or a Pell grant or any other grants or scholarships, this one is also reduced. The whole program is a joke to people who live here.