Wichita State UniversityResidents of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area now can attend Wichita State University for the same cost as Kansas residents.
The tuition assistance program - called Shocker City Partnership - applies to residents of the following counties in Texas: Collin, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant, Wise, Somervell and Hood.
The tuition rate applies to undergraduate and graduate students. Undergraduate students enrolling in 15 hours per semester would save more than $8,700 per year with this new rate. Graduate students enrolling in nine hours per semester save more than $3,700 per year.
Shocker City Partnership was rolled out in 2015 for Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma, residents.
Students from Texas and Oklahoma who live in counties outside the Dallas-Fort Worth, Oklahoma City and Tulsa metropolitan areas are still eligible for the Shocker Select program, which gives eligible students a 33 percent discount off nonresident tuition.
With these two programs, Wichita State is the most affordable large research university in the area.