Border County (fee pay status - 30)

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Residency Classification

This residency classification is available for students from eligible Oregon border counties enrolled at specific community colleges.  

Summary

The residency classification is only available for students at Walla Walla, Columbia Basin, Clark, Lower Columbia and Grays Harbor College.  The college may enroll students who are residents of certain Oregon border counties as resident students, charging resident tuition rates.  To be eligible, the students must be domiciled in a border county for at least 90 days. 

Statute

RCW 28B.15.0139 – Resident tuition rates – Border county higher education opportunity project.

For the purposes of determining resident tuition rates, "resident student" includes a resident of Oregon, residing in Columbia, Gilliam, Hood River, Multnomah, Clatsop, Clackamas, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, Wasco, or Washington county, who meets the following conditions:

1. The student is eligible to pay resident tuition rates under Oregon laws and has been domiciled in Columbia, Gilliam, Hood River, Multnomah, Clatsop, Clackamas, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, Wasco, or Washington county for at least ninety days immediately before enrollment at a community college located in Asotin, Benton, Clark, Columbia, Cowlitz, Franklin, Garfield, Klickitat, Pacific, Skamania, Wahkiakum, or Walla Walla county, Washington; or
2. The student is enrolled in courses located at the Tri-Cities or Vancouver branch of Washington State University for eight credits or less.

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