A School Where Everyone Does Work-Study

News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:32 AM EDT

Article Source: The New York Times

education, money, college, school, debt, work, university

Like many undergraduates, students at the College of the Ozarks here work their way through school, though they often do such unconventional campus jobs as milking cows at dawn in the college's barns and baking fruit breads for sale to donors.

But what is truly different about Hard Work U. — as the college styles itself — is that all 1,345 students must work 15 hours per week to pay off the entire cost of tuition — $15,900 per year. If they work summers, as one-third are doing this summer, they pay off their $4,400 room and board as well. Work study is not an option as it is at most campuses; it is the college's raison d'être.

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Wish there are more colleges out there like Ozarks. They are doing a good thing especially for students who can't afford college otherwise.
Do you know the other 6 colleges mentioned in the article which offers the same work-study program?

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