Ferris State Offers Instate Tuitition to Some other states' Residents
(Copied posting from CLSA Forum)
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It is with great pleasure that I inform you that through a new scholarship called the Great Lakes Scholarship, the residents of your state are eligible to attend Ferris State University at a substantially lower instate tuition rate. The highlights of the Great Lakes Scholarship are as follows:
The Great Lakes Scholarship allows eligible out-of-state students to pay lower in-state tuition for up to 15 credit hours per semester. You must meet the qualifications below to be considered for this scholarship:
1. You are a resident of, attend a high school in, or transfer from a college or university in: California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, or Ontario (Canada).
2. You enroll in an undergraduate, degree-granting program at Ferris State University — Big Rapids main campus or Kendall College of Art & Design in Grand Rapids.
3. This annual scholarship may be renewed three times providing the student is meeting the University's Satisfactory Academic Progress standards.
4. Eligible students will be automatically awarded this scholarship. No application necessary.
Ferris offers one of the largest undergraduate programs in Surveying Engineering, accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accredited Board for Engineering and Technology (EAC/ABET) in the U.S. We have five full-time faculty members and state-of-the art laboratories that are second to none.
If you would make this information available to those who could benefit from this scholarship on your Society’s website, I would greatly appreciate it. The Surveying Engineering Website at Ferris is:
http://www.ferris.edu/surveying/.
If you need further information, please do not hesitate to call on me.
Very truly yours,
Sayed R. Hashimi, PS
Professor and Program Coordinator
Surveying Engineering
Very Good Move
I live in PA but found that attending Penn State Wilkes-Barre with it's daytime classes and long commute hard to justify. I found that New Jersey Institite of Technology (Newark) was within 64 miles to home and their concentration on evening and Saturday classes met my needs. After a year I was told that NJIT had a program to increase the Surveying student population that offered In-State rates to students who were residents of the New York metropolitan area. I applied and was accepted, Not only that but they refunded me the difference from my first years classes. I had them just apply toward my continuing classes.
On another similar note Penn State has an offer of granting In-State tuition rates to high school students in the Southern tier of counties along the PA line. I can understand that because my sister lives in sparsley poplulated area in PA about midway along the New York border and my nephew attended a New York high school. Sometimes communities cross state lines.
Another feature is the financial benefit it actually creates for a college. Surveying students are an extremely percentage of any college population but sometimes it is only a few added students can keep a program at the break even point.
It is also a good will feature because not all 50 state have a college level surveying program, and those that have one often find it is not in their geographic and/or population center.
Paul in PA
