UR to offer free tuition, room and board to qualified Virginia students from families earning $60k a year or less
Which will make it easier for first-year students to attend.
Here’s the press release from the University about the new initiative:
Beginning in fall 2014, University of Richmond will raise the family income amount at which incoming first-year students from Virginia will qualify for free tuition, room and board, without loans. The need-based financial assistance will make a high quality college education affordable and accessible for more Virginians.
Virginia students from families whose total household income is $60,000 or less now are eligible for the program, with the new income level to take effect for University of Richmond freshmen entering in fall 2014. Previously, the full tuition, room and board assistance was available to families whose total family income totaled $40,000 or less.
“We know that many families are seeking to secure a quality college education for their children within a challenging economic environment,” said Nanci Tessier, vice president for enrollment management. “By broadening the income parameters of this program, we can expand the reach of the University of Richmond to become a destination for more talented students from middle-class Virginian families.”
Founded in 1830, Richmond is recognized as one of America’s leading liberal arts universities by U.S. News and World Report, Princeton Review’s “The Best 377 Colleges,” “The Fiske Guide to Colleges, Barron’s “Guide to the Most Competitive Colleges” and other influential college guidebooks.
The guides also name it a consensus best value for educational quality and affordability because of its need-blind, extensive financial aid. Richmond also offers students numerous grants supporting summer fellowships for research and internships.
BusinessWeek lists the university’s business school in the nation’s top 20, and Newsweek has called it one of 25 “Hottest Schools in America” for its international education program. Its Jepson School of Leadership Studies is the first degree-granting school in the discipline, and its School of Professional and Continuing Studies offers non-traditional students degree programs at all levels. Richmond’s School of Law has produced attorneys, judges and leaders serving at the local, state and national level since 1870.
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Nobody from Virginia goes to that school.
A nice enough gesture but why on earth limit it to Virginians? State residents already have a couple of excellent public-college alternatives, which students from most other states don’t.
Maybe it’s a way to attract students from Virginia. I’m from here and went to UR; I knew very few other students from Virginia while I was there–at least undergrad students.