--- title: This University Is Letting Out-of-State Students Pay In-State Tuition Prices description: UMaine just made college much more affordable to tens of thousands of students in the Northeast. authors: - name: Ethan Wolff-Mann url: https://money.com/author/ethan-wolff-mann/ at_money_since: 2015 articles: 160 covers: - Education - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/ewolffmann former_staff: true published: '2015-12-14T16:42:33.000Z' modified: '2024-03-18T14:43:54.000Z' section: Education tags: - affordable college - College - pubdesk - tuition word_count: 282 canonical: https://money.com/university-of-maine-in-state-tuition-deal/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![UMaine Orono](https://img.money.com/2015/12/gettyimages-493054777.jpg) *The University of Maine, in Orono.* If you're a high school student in the Northeast or mid-Atlantic region, you just got one more option for affordable colleges. The [University of Maine](https://umaine.edu/), in Orono (just north of Bangor), has announced that it will begin allowing non-Mainers to enroll and pay special in-state tuition rates. The offer represents an enormous discount for students who qualify. But the special tuition levels don't apply to all out-of-staters. Qualifying students must be from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, New Jersey, or Pennsylvania. Also, instead paying the same price as the in-state rates available to people from Maine, students from qualifying states will pay tuition that matches the levels of their home state flagship public university. For example, a student from Massachusetts could attend UMaine for the same tuition as UMass-Amherst for in-state, $14,141, and kids from Vermont could attend UMaine for the same tuition as they'd pay at UVM, $14,664. Essentially, these students get to cut the cost of going to UMaine in half, since out-of-state tuition normally runs $28,880. Yet it's still not quite as cheap as the in-state tuition price for Maine residents, $8,370. According to the [*Boston Globe*](http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/12/13/university-maine-cuts-cost-for-mass-students/Gmxuu0029mM1aZNoIbVodN/story.html), the school's strategy is a first for New England universities. The move is viewed as a response to the declining number of Maine high school graduates—the ones traditionally eligible for in-state tuition. If you don't live in the Northeast, UMaine is still handing out some good deals: $13,000 tuition discounts, for certain students. To qualify for the in-state tuition deal at UMaine, you have to have a 3.0 and 1050 SAT scores or higher. If you get in and don't make those grades, you can still get a $9,000 discount. \[[*Boston Globe*](http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/12/13/university-maine-cuts-cost-for-mass-students/Gmxuu0029mM1aZNoIbVodN/story.html)\] [![Best college education image](https://content.money.com/wp-content/themes/money2018/img/college-site-banner-02.png)](https://best-colleges.time.com/money/search-colleges/?xid=cm-mcpFindTheCollegeWidget) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/university-of-maine-in-state-tuition-deal/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Education", "item": "https://money.com/education/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Paying for College", "item": "https://money.com/paying-for-college/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "This University Is Letting Out-of-State Students Pay In-State Tuition Prices" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/university-of-maine-in-state-tuition-deal/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/university-of-maine-in-state-tuition-deal/", "name": "This University Is Letting Out-of-State Students Pay In-State Tuition Prices", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2015-12-14T16:42:33.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/university-of-maine-in-state-tuition-deal/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/university-of-maine-in-state-tuition-deal/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-03-18T14:43:54.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "This University Is Letting Out-of-State Students Pay In-State Tuition Prices", "articleSection": "Education", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2015/12/gettyimages-493054777.jpg", "width": 2400, "height": 1486, "caption": "UMaine Orono" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ethan Wolff-Mann", "url": "https://money.com/author/ethan-wolff-mann/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/ethan-wolff-mann/#author", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/ewolffmann" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2015-12-14T16:42:33.000Z", "description": "UMaine just made college much more affordable to tens of thousands of students in the Northeast.", "abstract": "UMaine just made college much more affordable to tens of thousands of students in the Northeast.", "@id": "https://money.com/university-of-maine-in-state-tuition-deal/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-03-18T14:43:54.000Z", "wordCount": 282, "keywords": [ "affordable college", "College", "pubdesk", "tuition" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Education", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Student financial aid in the United States", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_financial_aid_in_the_United_States" ] } ] } ] } ```