{"id":453921,"date":"2026-10-02T03:56:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453921\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T03:56:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:56:44","slug":"heres-when-you-can-apply-to-texas-public-colleges-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453921\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s when you can apply to Texas\u2019 public colleges for free"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas students can soon apply to the state\u2019s public universities and community colleges for free<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

From Monday, Oct. 12, to Sunday, Oct. 18, students who submit an application through ApplyTexas<\/a>, an online application portal for the state’s public schools, will have their application fees waived.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All Texas residents applying for undergraduate admission, including first-time college students<\/a> and transfer students, can participate. Students must be lawfully present in the U.S. to qualify. Graduate program applications are not covered during free application week.<\/p>\n

The initiative, which started last year under a new state law, comes amid a push by Texas leaders to prepare more students for the workforce and make higher education<\/a> more accessible.<\/p>\n

College application fees are often a barrier to higher education for students. Texas public schools typically charge $75 per application. Qualifying students can apply for an application fee waiver at some schools, depending on their financial need.<\/p>\n

Some Texas residents can also now go to college for free at some private and public universities, including\u00a0Texas Christian University<\/a>, those in the University of North Texas System and those in the University of Texas System.\u00a0<\/p>\n

TCU for Texans provides tuition and assistance for food and housing to incoming first-year students whose families make $70,000 or less annually. At UNT Dallas,<\/a> qualifying Texas students whose families make $100,000 or less annually will be able to get free tuition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

College leaders hope the initiatives, which are based on family income level, will help all Texans afford higher education.<\/p>\n

The DMN Education Lab deepens the coverage and conversation about urgent education issues critical to the future of North Texas.<\/p>\n

The DMN Education Lab is a community-funded journalism initiative, with support from Bobby and Lottye Lyle, Communities Foundation of Texas, The Dallas Foundation, Dallas Regional Chamber, Deedie Rose, Garrett and Cecilia Boone, Judy and Jim Gibbs, The Meadows Foundation, The Murrell Foundation, Ron Steinhart, Solutions Journalism Network, Southern Methodist University, Sydney Smith Hicks, and the University of Texas at Dallas. The Dallas Morning News retains full editorial control of the Education Lab’s journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas students can soon apply to the state\u2019s public universities and community colleges for free.\u00a0 From Monday, Oct.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,100449,223,95012,89512,89396,89204,89398],"class_list":["post-453921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-business-personal-finance","tag-news","tag-news-texas","tag-tp-texas","tag-tp-ed-lab-college-career","tag-tp-education-lab","tag-tp-higher-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}