Yeah, make sure you are going to a school in the state your reside in to avoid out of state tuition bumps. I know during my 4 years of undergraduate and my year of grad I dont believe I ever had a tuition bill over $2400, and most of the first two years of that was done at a community college costing less than $1400 a semester, and they even offered plenty of scholarship help to those who applied. One of my largest scholarships from there covered all but books for my last semester, only 12 people applied for the scholarship and 4 received it. . . Smaller schools have lots of benefits. Keep in mind you're not going to hinder yourself starting small and working your way to a larger university. All the basics have to be done, and as long as you have a degree plan that you can work with, you can even get all your prelims out of the way at smaller schools (Bio 1 and 2, Chem 1 and 2, physics 1 and 2 if you are a science major). These schools have cheaper lab rates versus the univeristy level. Heck, even grad school was less than 3 grand a semester at the local university . . . Good luck!