To be eligible for an out-of-state tuition waiver, a student must receive an academically competitive scholarship or fellowship of $1,000 or more during an academic year.
This means that the scholarship must be awarded competitively, considering both in-state and out-of-state students equally. The award must come from Cockrell School or university resources, not an external source such as a scholarship awarded from a student’s high school.
Students meeting the eligibility requirements will not automatically receive a tuition waiver. Out-of-state tuition waivers are extremely hard to obtain because the Cockrell School is allotted very few of them for undergraduates each year. Most of these waivers are already promised to students on a multi-year basis as part of a scholarship packet. For any remaining waivers, there is no application process. We award waivers automatically to eligible students with the best academics. Recipients are notified by email if they are selected to receive a waiver. If a student is selected to receive a waiver, it will likely be for one semester only, and would not continue further.
Out-of-state students can establish Texas residency a number of ways. Find detailed information on the university’s Establishing Texas Residency page.
