Starting this fall, Oklahoma residents will have the opportunity to receive a quality education at a great value when they attend UNT thanks to a new tuition rate geared for residents from the neighboring state.

Oklahoma residents pursuing a bachelor's degree at UNT will no longer pay the out-of-state tuition rate but instead a new Oklahoma Tuition Rate offered by UNT. The new rate is roughly half the cost of nonresident (out-of-state) tuition at UNT – $5,602.70 for 15 semester credit hours in 2014-15.

President Neal Smatresk says the new rate is in response to a growing number of Oklahoma residents expressing an interest in UNT.

"We're eager to offer our neighbors to the north the opportunity to receive a quality education at a great value," says President Smatresk. "UNT is only 37 miles south of the Oklahoma border."

UNT is less than an hour away from the Dallas-Fort Worth area, one of the nation's largest metropolitan areas. The vibrant economy of the area provides UNT students with multiple opportunities for jobs, networking, internships and mentoring. Oklahoma residents also choose UNT for its unique degree programs, including archaeology, applied arts and sciences, digital retailing, ecology for environmental science, home furnishing management, jazz studies, keyboard performance, photojournalism, speech-language pathology and fibers.