UMaine Flagship Match financial aid program focus of Boston Globe editorial
The Boston Globe published the editorial, “What UMaine can teach UMass,” about the University of Maine’s Flagship Match, a competitive scholarship program that guarantees academically qualified, first-year students from several states will pay the same tuition and fee rate as their home state’s flagship institution. According to the editorial, some Massachusetts students could save about $15,000 to attend UMaine under the new program. “The UMaine Flagship Match Program is a smart marketing tool that also has the potential to strengthen the region’s public higher-education grid. It’s a meaningful attempt to address the critical problem of college unaffordability, an issue that has been pushed to the background of the presidential campaign,” the editorial states. The program also was mentioned in the MarketWatch article, “How to pay in-state tuition at an out-of-state college.”