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Thursday, July 3, 2014
Online Colleges That Offer Free Laptops For Students - Katie Lepi, Edudemic
If you’re an incoming college freshman with a limited budget, one way to offset the cost of buying a laptop is to find a university program that offers one as part of its overall tuition package. You should pay careful attention to the language that advertisers use to describe these programs: except for in very rare cases, colleges don’t give away “free laptops” to their incoming students. Rather, these laptops are compensated for in the overall tuition bill that you pay your school. However, since tuition costs can be offset by things like scholarships and need-based financial aid packages, if you receive a full-ride grant to a university that gives laptops to its students (for example), you are effectively getting a “free” computer. Linked below, we have created a list of schools that offer laptops as part of their tuition statements.
http://www.edudemic.com/online-colleges-that-offer-free-laptops-for-students/