Private
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah
- Acceptance
- 68%
- In-state tuition
- $6,500
- Undergrads
- 31,000
A church-sponsored university with low published tuition and an ecclesiastical endorsement requirement in the application.
Lower-cost universities
16 universities in the directory carry this tag, across 15 states. Each profile lists admission requirements, published costs, test policy and deadlines.
Public
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida
- Acceptance
- 25%
- In-state tuition
- $6,500
- Undergrads
- 33,000
Known for criminology, film and a guaranteed-pathway programme that starts qualified applicants in the summer term.
Public
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Acceptance
- 76%
- In-state tuition
- $12,000
- Undergrads
- 31,000
Louisiana's flagship land-grant and sea-grant university, with coastal and petroleum engineering tied to the Gulf economy.
Public
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana
- Acceptance
- 50%
- In-state tuition
- $9,992
- Undergrads
- 38,000
Tuition has been frozen for more than a decade, and admission is granted to a specific college rather than to the university at large.
Public
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas
- Acceptance
- 78%
- In-state tuition
- $10,000
- Undergrads
- 26,000
The Walton College of Business sits close to the retail and logistics corporate cluster of northwest Arkansas.
Public
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
- Acceptance
- 24%
- In-state tuition
- $6,400
- Undergrads
- 35,000
Florida's flagship combines one of the lowest in-state tuition rates in the country with a single 1 November application deadline.
Public
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
- Acceptance
- 39%
- In-state tuition
- $12,000
- Undergrads
- 31,000
The state's oldest public university, where in-state students frequently combine admission with the HOPE and Zell Miller scholarships.
Public
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
- Acceptance
- 88%
- In-state tuition
- $11,800
- Undergrads
- 20,000
Assured admission is published as a GPA threshold, so qualified applicants receive decisions within weeks of applying.
Public
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky
- Acceptance
- 94%
- In-state tuition
- $13,000
- Undergrads
- 23,000
An open-access flagship with an academic medical centre that serves as a clinical site for health sciences students.
Public
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri
- Acceptance
- 78%
- In-state tuition
- $12,500
- Undergrads
- 24,000
The Missouri School of Journalism runs professional newsrooms, including an NBC affiliate, as teaching laboratories.
Public
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska
- Acceptance
- 80%
- In-state tuition
- $10,000
- Undergrads
- 19,000
A land-grant flagship with agricultural research stations across the state and low published in-state tuition.
Public
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada
- Acceptance
- 85%
- In-state tuition
- $9,000
- Undergrads
- 26,000
Its hospitality college uses the Las Vegas resort industry as a teaching laboratory and internship pipeline.
Public
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Acceptance
- 96%
- In-state tuition
- $8,900
- Undergrads
- 16,000
A Hispanic-Serving Institution and research university with one of the lowest application fees among state flagships.
Public
University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma
- Acceptance
- 75%
- In-state tuition
- $12,000
- Undergrads
- 22,000
The National Weather Center on campus anchors one of the largest meteorology programmes in the United States.
Public
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee
- Acceptance
- 68%
- In-state tuition
- $13,500
- Undergrads
- 28,000
Tennessee's land-grant flagship, partnered with Oak Ridge National Laboratory for undergraduate research placements.
Public
West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia
- Acceptance
- 89%
- In-state tuition
- $9,900
- Undergrads
- 20,000
A land-grant flagship with a forensic and investigative science programme developed with federal law enforcement agencies.
About this grouping
Tags describe a shared characteristic — funding model, academic emphasis, campus scale or cost level — and are assigned editorially from public institutional information. They are a navigation aid, not an assessment. A university appearing here is not ranked above or below any other, and institutions may carry several tags at once.
States represented: Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia.