Tuition Waivers for Native
American Students
The following is a list of institutions that offer free
tuition and fees or tuition waivers for Native American students. For more
information contact each individual institution.
University of North Dakota at Grand Forks
- offers a Cultural Diversity Waiver for incoming
freshman and new transfer students.
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
- Waives out-of-state tuition costs for students
from Oklahoma who belong to one of the five tribes (Cherokee, Choctaw,
Seminole, Creek, and Chickasaw)
- Offers an in-state tuition fee waiver
State of Idaho
- Offers an out-of-state tuition waiver for
students who can prove to be a descendant from a tribe of Idaho (Kootenai,
Coeur d' Alene, Nez Perce, Shoshone-Bannock, and Shoshone-Paiute)
State of Washington
- Offers in-state tuition to students enrolled in
a tribe that is indigenous of the Northwest.
Southern Utah University at Cedar City
- Offers in-state tuition for Native American
students from Arizona and Nevada
State of Montana
- Offers a waiver for Native American students who
are Montana residents, and can demonstrate financial need
University of Minnesota at Morris
- Offers a tuition waiver in honor of the campus'
origin as the Morris Indian School
- Offers a President's Outstanding Minority
Scholarship
- Offers Minnesota resident fees to qualified
non-resident minority students in the top 25% of their high school class
Fort Lewis College at Durango, Colorado
- Offers full tuition waivers for Native American
or Alaskan Native students
Lake Superior State University at Sault-Sainte
Marie, Michigan
- Offers the Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver to
students who are certified by their tribe as being at least 1/4 Native
American with one-year state residency
Iowa State University
- Multicultural Vision Program Award at Iowa
State. This award is equal to full resident tuition for 4 years (8
semesters) at Iowa State (3,116 in 2001-02 or approximately $12,500 over
four years).
- First year American Indians with Historical
connection to the State of Iowa are eligible for this award
- The MVP website has the application
available in pdf format at www.iastate.edu/~adm_info/isuapp.html
- Tribes or Nations historically connected to
Iowa include: Iowa, Kickapoo, Menominee, Miami, Missouri, Ojibwa
(Chippewa), Omaha, Ote, Ottawa (Odawa), Potawatomi, Sac and Fox,
Sioux and Winnebago (HoCak)
- Contact Debra Sanborn, Office of Admissions,
314 Alumni Hall, Iowa State University, Amex, Iowa 50011-2010,
Phone: 515-294-0632
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