Kent County Today

In-state tuition and fees rose 1.2 percent for 2018-19 at Delaware Technical Community College-Terry, according to recent data from the U.S. Department of Education.

Delaware residents paid $4,904 to attend the four-year public institution this year – $56 more than the $4,848 charged for 2017-18.

Non-residents paid 137.2 percent more than residents this year, or $11,632. Their price tag grew 2.3 percent from $11,372 in 2017-18.

About 96 percent of the school's undergraduate population are Delaware residents. And about 4 percent are residents of other states.

Data shows 90 percent of full-time undergraduates who started school in 2015-16 received student financial aid in some form. In all, 1,615 students received grants or scholarships totaling $6.7 million and 301 students took out student loans totaling more than $976,789.

Including all undergraduates (13,895), 7,404 students used grants or scholarships totaling $25.6 million, and 2,679 students took out $10.4 million in federal student loans.

	Enrollment	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	Change in tuition and fees 2015-16 to 2018-19
In-state	~13,339	$3,632	$4,607	$4,848	$4,904	35%
Out-of-state	~556	$8,522	$10,899	$11,372	$11,632	36.5%

The following data includes only full-time students who began an undergraduate program at Delaware Technical Community College-Terry in 2015-16.

Type of Aid	Number of students receiving aid	Percent receiving aid	Total amount of aid received	Average amount of aid per student
Federal grants	951	51%	$3,885,580	$4,086
State / local grant or scholarship	826	44%	$2,566,685	$3,107
Institutional grants or scholarships	282	15%	$291,636	$1,034
Grant or scholarship aid total	1,615	87%	$6,743,901	$4,176
Federal student loans	301	16%	$976,789	$3,245
Other student loans	0	0%	$0	-
Student loan aid	301	16%	$976,789	$3,245
Total student aid	1,679	90%	-	-