Texas Med Schools and Tuition

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So as yall might know tuition in Texas med schools is insanely cheap. Here are the fees for MS1 Texas residents for the last school year at each of our 10 institutions:

Texas Tech - Lubbock: $14,471/year
UTH: $14,824/year
Texas Tech - El Paso: $16,000/year
Texas A&M: $16,432/year
UTMB: $17,589/year
UTHSCSA: 18,823/year
UT Dell: $19,000/year (expected)
TCOM: $19,156.5/year
UT Southwestern: $20,441/year
Baylor: $31,618/year

For non-residents, tuition is about $10,000 higher per year. However, almost all Texas med schools will give out $1,000 scholarships to every incoming non-resident, automatically qualifying them for Texas resident tuition. (This also means that non-residents effectively pay $1,000 less than residents.) This is a phenomenal way to get outsiders to come to our schools, let them graduate with less debt, and entice them to stay in the state after graduating. Clearly Texas is doing something right.

Why don't ANY other public schools have similar policies? And what is it about Texas in general that allows them to foot the bill for non-residents?

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[w0rldw3y3d]

I thought Baylor was the same price as UTSW, am I missing some hidden fees somewhere??

 

[Kelly1993]

Because other states don't have an influx of cash from oil! Haha. I agree though, Texas is GOAT.

 

[texan2414]

I believe taxpayers subsidize a lot of undergraduate medical education in TX, this is why schools have a 90% mandate for accepting TX residents.

A sweet deal for OOS applicants though. But then the applicants vying for the slots are probably good enough to be accepted at other Ivy League programs. I'm not so sure if the tuition and $1k scholarship is incentive enough for them to attend TX.

 

[BluMist]

I think OP probably meant $10k scholarship if it is suppose to offset the IS/OOS tuition difference. Otherwise, yeah, $1k * 4 out of ~100k is not enough incentive.

I believe taxpayers subsidize a lot of undergraduate medical education in TX, this is why schools have a 90% mandate for accepting TX residents.

A sweet deal for OOS applicants though. But then the applicants vying for the slots are probably good enough to be accepted at other Ivy League programs. I'm not so sure if the tuition and $1k scholarship is incentive enough for them to attend TX.

 

[sliceofbread136]

I think OP probably meant $10k scholarship if it is suppose to offset the IS/OOS tuition difference. Otherwise, yeah, $1k * 4 out of ~100k is not enough incentive.

No, policy states that for some reason if you get a $1000 scholarship you qualify to pay only in state tuition

 

[BluMist]

so in reality, it is more like a $11k scholarship?

edit: based on a ~5 year old thread, UTSW offers $1,000 scholarship which then qualifies OOS for in-state tuition, which is essentially a $15,000 scholarship. However, this might be limited to UTSW only.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/worth-applying-to-texas-schools.710911/

No, policy states that for some reason if you get a $1000 scholarship you qualify to pay only in state tuition

 

[ZX10R]

I thought Baylor was the same price as UTSW, am I missing some hidden fees somewhere??

You won't know about all the hidden fees until you get billed tuition.

so in reality, it is more like a $11k scholarship?

For any Texas State funded school if OOS individuals attend and they receive >$1000 in scholarships they will be paying IS tuition. I guess you can look at it like getting an $11K scholarship but really they are just being treated like IS students.

 

[sliceofbread136]

so in reality, it is more like a $11k scholarship?

edit: based on a ~5 year old thread, UTSW offers $1,000 scholarship which then qualifies OOS for in-state tuition, which is essentially a $15,000 scholarship. However, this might be limited to UTSW only.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/worth-applying-to-texas-schools.710911/

You could look at it like that I guess, but that's not how it is formally. I interviewed at all but 2 Texas schools around 4 years ago and from what I remember they all offered the same deal to oos students

 

[Cookie04]

It's because the Texas Medical schools have more funding. And since Texas likes to invest all of that precious money into their schools they demanded that the public schools have 90% Texas residents.

 

[accueil]

I thought Baylor was the same price as UTSW, am I missing some hidden fees somewhere??

The numbers in the OP are wrong wrt Baylor for a TX resident. The TX resident tuition/fees for 15-16 are $18,043.

 

[w0rldw3y3d]

The numbers in the OP are wrong wrt Baylor for a TX resident. The TX resident tuition/fees for 15-16 are $18,043.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

 

[navigator]

Yeah, might have the numbers wrong for BCM, my bad