The LEAST Expensive Public Colleges for In-State Students

Coming in at $2,952 dollars a year in tuition and fees, New Mexico Highlands University wins top spot in US News and World Report's list of the cheapest public colleges for in-state students.

To put that in perspective, the average in-state tuition at public colleges is $7,042 for the 2010-11 school year.

Check out our slide show of US News and World Report's list of the cheapest public colleges for in-state students and then tell us, is this a good deal?

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[let1gre]

05:27 PM on 07/06/2011

You get what you pay for, for better or worse.

[Sarah Hyde]

10:56 AM on 06/30/2011

What about my Alma Mater? Just over $2800 for resident tuition....The University of Montana-Western.

[am44smith]

11:10 PM on 06/18/2011

I'm being seriously cheated...... My yearly tuition is $43,000 a year! WTF!?

It is private but still! That's a huge difference!

[Anthony Underwood]

09:07 PM on 06/18/2011

The public college that I work for has them all beat. West Virginia University at Parkersburg (not connected to the OTHER WVU): just under $2,400 PER YEAR. So there.... :)

[eyecon]

04:20 PM on 06/18/2011

Sometimes just a simple table (perhaps with a small pic) would be better. You know, compare the entries more easily. At least the pics and the titles would be in sync.

[smittlib77]

03:25 PM on 06/18/2011

This semester, I have an instate tuition of around 1,700 at UNC Greensboro.. Last year for both semesters, it was 1,600. That's just tuition, doesn't include other costs... huffpost really needs to check before they make these leaps and leaving some schools out.

[DanSc]

02:06 PM on 06/18/2011

Dear Lord; who edits these photo articles?

[380 McFlip]

12:40 PM on 06/18/2011

good idea http://71-37-34-56.tukw.qwest.net/md11.htm

[nonny Idaho]

10:19 AM on 06/18/2011

I go to Utah State University and tution is around $2,800 per semester. Number one?

[Hell Yeah Im Uhmercan]

10:12 AM on 06/18/2011

North Carolina has inexpensive public universities, well-maintained roads, beautiful state parks- and a state income tax. That's what you get when you pay taxes.

[Carachama]

09:31 AM on 06/18/2011

The amount of state and federal funding of universities is not keeping pace with the costs, meaning that someone has to pick up the costs, and that, unfortunately is the students.

[George Cree]

09:16 AM on 06/18/2011

Where will the scientists, engineers and medical specialists that we need come from if we keep making education less accessible?

[czs5056]

08:43 AM on 06/18/2011

it makes me sick. I pay $15,250 a semester to work myself to death at Penn State. and it also makes me sad that our president makes over 800k a year, on top of having EVERYTHING paid for my the university including a private jet that he takes to Harrisburg (to tell lawmakers we need more money AND IS LATE all the time for). he tell us "we are having across the board budget freezes and cutting programs, and raising tuition while gladly accepting his personal near 800k profit a year. the students don't like him (indicated by having over 100,000 people booing him during the Joe Pa 400th win ceremony) but he is kind of person who will never leave unless he gets offered more money elsewhere or he goes up to the great big mansion in the sky.

[ncsteeler]

09:17 AM on 06/18/2011

My how times have changed; when I went to PSU in the late 60's tuition was $225 a year and there was complaining when it went up tp $300. I know a dollar doesn't buy what it used to but even with at factor of 10 inflation, that would still be $2250 - easily the lowest in the country. Of course, at that time many state schools (notablly all the U of Cal campuses) had no in state tuition.

You may not like the school president but his salary and benies are a drop in the bucket compared to the schools budget. Your real complaint should be with the state legislature - states (PA in particular, apparently) have really cut back on state subsidies for higher education.

Keep working hard; when I got there I had coasted through HS because I was smarter than most everyone else (more modest to). I got to PSU and found everyone else (or so it seemed) was top of their HS class. It took some getting used to but in the end I did well.

Good Luck!

[dps2]

09:45 AM on 06/18/2011

not that well it seems.... that last paragraph is horribly written.

[let1gre]

05:26 PM on 07/06/2011

"[E]veryone else (or so it seemed) was top of their HS class."

At Penn State...?

[darter22]

08:40 AM on 06/18/2011

There could be 50 states on this list if we had not poured trillions of wasted dollars into senseless wars for the last 10 years.

[GrownupStewie]

01:24 AM on 06/18/2011

yea no kidding, ofcourse ucsb didn't make this least....