{"id":120262,"date":"2025-08-05T07:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/120262\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T07:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:10:14","slug":"tcu-offers-free-tuition-and-housing-to-texans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/120262\/","title":{"rendered":"TCU Offers Free Tuition and Housing to Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cost of attendance has been driving would-be students from Texas away from TCU. The school hears you.<\/p>\n

TCU is eliminating financial barriers for some of the state\u2019s top students through a new initiative. Beginning with the Fall 2026 class, the university will offer full tuition and financial assistance for food and housing to qualifying Texas students as part of its newly launched TCU for Texans<\/a> program.<\/p>\n

The aid initiative will cover all tuition costs for incoming first-year students from Texas whose families earn $70,000 or less in adjusted gross income and meet additional eligibility criteria, including Pell Grant eligibility, and submission of required financial aid forms by Nov. 1, 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cTCU for Texans opens our doors to the state\u2019s best and brightest students who may have once considered a TCU education out of reach,\u201d said TCU Chancellor Daniel W. Pullin in a statement. \u201cIf you have the drive and talent, we have the support.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to full tuition, the program includes support for housing, meals, and other needs, with aid renewable throughout a student\u2019s college career based on annual reassessment of financial need.<\/p>\n

The initiative builds on TCU\u2019s LEAD ON: Values in Action strategic plan, which aims to broaden access to the university\u2019s top-tier academics, student experience, and athletics. The school has quietly piloted the program over the past three years, providing aid to hundreds of academically strong Texas students. Now, with expanded capacity and formalized infrastructure, the program is a key part of the university\u2019s push to support student-centered growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs TCU continues to attract a student body from every state in the nation, we want Texan families to know they remain a bedrock at TCU,\u201d said Heath Einstein, vice provost for enrollment management. \u201cAcademically talented Texas students can have confidence that a TCU education is attainable.\u201d<\/p>\n

TCU joins a growing number of Texas universities \u2014 including Rice, Texas A&M, UT Arlington, and Baylor \u2014 in offering full tuition or comprehensive aid packages for low-income, in-state students. TCU\u2019s approach stands out in part because, as a private university, it charges the same tuition for in-state and out-of-state students: $63,500 in tuition and $18,020 for room and board for the 2025\u201326 academic year.<\/p>\n

More than half of TCU\u2019s incoming students are from outside Texas, and more than 1,400 undergraduates received Pell Grants in the 2022\u201323 academic year, according to federal data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cost of attendance has been driving would-be students from Texas away from TCU. The school hears you. TCU…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,74818,31212,7371,11095,7372,74815,8734,74817,10077,74816,358,7453,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-120262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-education-equity","10":"tag-financial-aid","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fort-worth-inc-staff","13":"tag-fortworth","14":"tag-free-tuition","15":"tag-higher-education","16":"tag-low-income-students","17":"tag-tcu","18":"tag-tcu-for-texans","19":"tag-texas","20":"tag-top-story","21":"tag-tx","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114974912538785100","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}