Scholarship in University of Houston

[Naser I Hossain]

Hi folks. I was offered a 1000$ scholarship at the Univerity of Houston recently along with an "In state tuition weaver". I have requested them for detail information about he scholarship, because I don't know if the scholarship amount is monthly or quarterly or yearly. A scholarship of only 1000$ is supposed to be a monthly allotment, as far as my common sense works that is.

As for the in state tuition, I don't know what that really means Can any of you guys help me out? Do you know of any such grants being given by UH this Fall? If yes, then can you please elaborate the scope of the scholarship program and what do they mean by "In state tuition weaver" ?

Note that, I applied in the Masters in Mechanical Engineering in UH for Fall 2011.

Thanks

Edited May 22, 2011 by Naser I Hossain

[jblsmith]

Hi folks. I was offered a 1000$ scholarship at the Univerity of Houston recently along with an "In state tuition weaver". I have requested them for detail information about he scholarship, because I don't know if the scholarship amount is monthly or quarterly or yearly. A scholarship of only 1000$ is supposed to be a monthly allotment, as far as my common sense works that is.

As for the in state tuition, I don't know what that really means Can any of you guys help me out? Do you know of any such grants being given by UH this Fall? If yes, then can you please elaborate the scope of the scholarship program and what do they mean by "In state tuition weaver" ?

Note that, I applied in the Masters in Mechanical Engineering in UH for Fall 2011.

Thanks

Hi Naser,

I'm headed to UH this fall for Ph.D. Econ and got some funding. Part of my offer was a monthly stipend and another part was semesterly scholarships so it's hard to say difinitively what your "$1000 scholarship" means. Unfortunately, my guess is that becasue $1000 is a nice round number this is a semesterly scholarship. Although I could very well be wrong. As far as the in-state tuition waiver, let me explain. Public institutions in the US (such as the University of Houston) are supported primarily by state taxes (in this case, Texas state taxes). Therefore, the argument goes that if you are a Texas resident and have paid Texas taxes then part of your taxes have gone to support UH and public education in general thus you shouldn't have to pay as much in tuition as somebody who hasn't lived in Texas and hasn't paid Texas taxes. Therefore, Texas reidents pay a lower "in-state tuition" than non-Texas residents who have pay higher "out-of-state tuition." Often the difference between these two pay scales is not arbitrary so your "in-state tuition wiaver" is a big savings.

As always, if you have any questions you can email your POI and I'm sure they'll be able to help you out. Good luck at UH, maybe I'll see ya there in the fall!