What college has the cheapest tuition for a graduate program?

Question

I'm looking for the college withthe CHEAPEST tuition. Not undergrad (BA degree), but GRAD orograms (MA degree). Per credit (preferrably) or fulltime tuition.
I'm thinking it will be a state school.

Answer 1

Graduate programs vary considerably in price, but you are correct in that public universities are often less expensive in terms of tuition than private ones.

However, graduate students in MA programs (in the arts, sciences, social sciences, and humanities) generally do not have to pay at all. In graduate studies, students apply to programs in their fields all over the country, and choose the program that funds them the best.

At the graduate level, students apply for teaching assistantships and research assistantships, which provide full tuition remission, as well as a small monthly stipend. For the most part, decisions about which program to attend are contingent upon the level of support received, balanced against the prestige of the program.

There's another dimension to this as well. Why would any student enroll in a Master's program that is not enthusiastic about that student's candidacy, and does not demonstrate its commitment to that student's success by providing an incentive to choose that program?

In other words, grad students "follow the money." If a student is paying for his or her Master's degree, that student either screwed up somehow (perhaps by not having the credentials to pursue graduate study in the first place), OR chose his or her graduate program in terms of prestige, rather than support.

Note: This information does NOT apply to med school and law school.

Answer 2

I would look at community colleges in your state that offer grad programs.....also see if your current job offers to pay so much money per credit....