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The state of Washington contributes to the cost of students’ education through support of basic instructional cost and state-supported financial aid.

The following table indicates average state support by tuition category for students attending community and technical colleges for the academic year 2008-2009.

	Resident Undergraduate	Nonresident Undergraduate
Total Instructional Cost Per FTE Student	$7,041	$7,041
Operating Fee	$2,189	$7,007
Net State Support per FTE Student	$4,852	N/A

The following table indicates the amount of state supported financial aid including that provided from the local institutional financial aid fund (3½ percent).

	State Financial Aid	Institutional Financial Aid
Undergraduate Resident	$1,801*	$74**
Undergraduate Nonresident	$43	N/A

*Includes State Work Study, State Need Grant, EOG, and all other financial aid programs administered by the HECB, and four SBCTC administered programs: Work-based Learning Tuition Assistance, Opportunity Grants, Worker Retraining Financial Aid and worker Retraining Private College Funding.

**Institutional financial aid is shown on an average student basis. Data are not available to allocate by student category. Institutional financial aid is not available to nonresidents.

Note: Data source provided by the Higher Education Coordination Board is available upon request.