State Support of Higher Education Students

Through Opportunity Pathways, Washington State provides a variety of financial aid programs to help students and their families pay for college. Pursuant to RCW 28B.15.0681, the approximate level of state support received by students is being provided to the colleges for your use.

The following table indicates average state support by tuition category for students attending community and technical colleges for the academic year 2011-2012.

 

Resident
Undergraduate

Non-Resident
Undergraduate

Total Instructional Cost per FTE Student

$6,168

$6,168

Operating Fee

$2,849

$7,684

Net State Support per FTE Student

$3,319

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The following table indicates the amount of state supported financial aid
including that provided from the local institutional financial aid fund (3 1/2 percent).

 

State
Financial Aid*

Institutional Financial Aid

Undergraduate Resident

$793*

$87

Undergraduate Non-resident

$0**

$0 **

 

* Includes State Work Study, State Need Grant, and all other financial aid programs administered
by the HECB, and SBCTC administered programs: Opportunity Grants and Worker Retraining Financial Aid.

** State and Institutional financial aid is not available to nonresidents.

Note: Data source provided by the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges is available upon request.

If you have any questions, please contact Scott Copeland at (360) 704-4397 or scopeland@sbctc.edu.

8/27/12