Dual enrollment, state by state
Dual enrollment is run by the states, so what it costs and who can enroll changes at the state line. Minnesota covers tuition and books for every student who qualifies. In Illinois, whether your family pays anything at all comes down to an agreement between your district and the local college. Fifty programs are written up here.
Every deadline these pages name, gathered by month.
If your state isn't listed yet, the guides still apply, because the way a credit is checked for transfer is the same everywhere. What changes at the state line is who qualifies and who pays.
Find your state
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PSEO in Minnesota
Free tuition, books, and required fees for 10th through 12th graders at about 60 colleges, with a May 30 notice deadline that many families miss.
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Running Start in Washington
Tuition-free college courses for juniors and seniors at Washington's community and technical colleges and a few universities. Families still pay fees and books, and the student gets to campus on their own.
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College Credit Plus in Ohio
Open to 7th through 12th graders, free at Ohio public colleges for public school students, with an April 1 letter of intent and a 30-credit annual cap.
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Dual credit in Texas
Free at most large community colleges, and capped at $60.10 a credit hour in tuition at FAST colleges. Students with free or reduced lunch in the last five years pay nothing there.
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Dual enrollment in Florida
Tuition-free by state law, with a 3.0 unweighted GPA and a qualifying PERT, SAT, or ACT score to get in. Public school students get textbooks covered too.
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Dual enrollment in California
Community college courses for 9th through 12th graders through a district partnership called CCAP, with no enrollment fees and no textbook costs, capped at 15 units a term.
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Dual Enrollment in Georgia
State funding covers tuition, fees, and books for 30 semester hours, mostly for juniors and seniors. After 30 hours the family pays the college's rate, and ninth graders are outside the program entirely.
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Career & College Promise in North Carolina
Tuition paid by the state at community colleges for juniors and seniors with a 2.8 unweighted GPA. Whether the district covers fees and books, and who drives, varies by district.
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Concurrent Enrollment in Colorado
Open to 9th through 12th graders with an approved academic plan. The district pays tuition at the community college rate; books and fees are usually the family's, and so is getting to campus.
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Dual credit in Illinois
Governed by the Dual Credit Quality Act and a model agreement between each district and college. Whether your teen pays depends on that agreement.
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Early College Credit and Start College Now in Wisconsin
Two programs, one for the technical colleges and one for universities, both for juniors and seniors. The district pays most or all of the tuition, and applications are due March 1 for fall and October 1 for spring.
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Dual credit in Indiana
Every Indiana high school has to offer dual credit. Priority courses at public colleges cost at most $25 a credit hour, and nothing for students on free or reduced lunch.
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Dual enrollment in Michigan
Grades 9 through 12, for courses the high school doesn't offer. The district pays tuition up to a state-set share; anything above it, plus books, is yours. Ten courses across high school.
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Dual Enrollment in Alabama
Rising 10th through 12th graders with a 2.5 GPA, at $133 a credit hour plus fees, with a state scholarship that covers some courses when the legislature funds it. No credit cap at all.
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Dual Enrollment in Tennessee
The lottery-funded Dual Enrollment Grant pays up to $620.55 for each of the first five courses, then much less. One June 30 application covers the whole academic year.
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Dual enrollment in Pennsylvania
Every school entity has to hold at least one dual credit agreement, and none of them has to pay for the courses. The agreement states the cost, and published rates run from $83.50 to $230 a credit.
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Dual enrollment in Virginia
Juniors and seniors at the community colleges. Courses on a College and Career Ready Virginia pathway cost the family nothing, and courses outside it are billed at the college rate.
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Dual enrollment in Arizona
A community college course taught inside the high school during the school day. Concurrent enrollment is the separate arrangement where the student goes to the college. Price is set district by district.
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Dual enrollment in South Carolina
College courses through the state's 16 technical colleges, priced by each college and district, with Lottery Tuition Assistance covering part of the tuition once a student carries six credit hours in a term.
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Dual enrollment in Louisiana
A Board of Regents floor for eligibility, four ways to clear it, and a bill the district assembles out of state and federal funds. TOPS Tech Early Start covers career courses for juniors and seniors.
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Dual enrollment in Maryland
The Blueprint moved the bill off families for students who meet the College and Career Readiness Standard, and set a floor of two covered courses each fall and spring. Counties add their own terms on top.
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Concurrent Enrollment in Utah
College courses for $5 a credit hour, taught mostly inside the high school by a college-approved teacher. Each college sets its own admission bar, and books are still yours.
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Concurrent Enrollment in Oklahoma
Juniors and seniors get tuition waived by the State Regents, 18 credit hours a year for seniors and 9 for juniors. Fees and books stay with the family, and each college sets its own entrance bar.
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Dual enrollment in New York
No single statewide program. CUNY's College Now is free for New York City public school students, SUNY campuses price their own, and a new state rule makes districts file their partnership agreements in 2026.
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Dual enrollment in Massachusetts
Two state programs. CDEP waives tuition and fees at public campuses for eligible high schoolers, mostly in the spring, and designated Early College builds the courses into the school day at no cost.
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Concurrent Enrollment in Iowa
College courses run through a district contract with a community college, at no tuition cost to the family. Iowa also runs PSEO, and the two programs treat a failed course differently.
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Concurrent Credit in Arkansas
State policy bars a college from billing the family for tuition, fees, or materials on a concurrent credit course. A 2025 scholarship replaced the old Concurrent Challenge grant and pays $65 a credit hour.
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Dual Enrollment and Dual Credit in Mississippi
Mississippi separates the two terms in statute. Dual enrollment earns college credit only; dual credit earns high school credit too, and the distinction decides whether the course helps your teen graduate.
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Dual Enrollment in Nebraska
Nebraska has no single statewide program, so the price depends on which college your high school partners with. The ACE scholarship covers tuition and mandatory fees for students who qualify on income.
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Dual Credit in New Mexico
A statewide program where the college charges no tuition and the school district buys the books, though the tuition waiver lives in rule rather than in statute. Families pay special course fees and transportation.
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Early College in Maine
Maine pays college tuition for high schoolers through the Aspirations Program, and the class of 2027 forward gets 18 tuition-free credits for the whole of high school.
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Dual and Concurrent Enrollment in New Hampshire
The statute funds up to four courses in each of grades 10, 11, and 12. The community college scholarship covers two a year, and most of those courses are taught inside the high school.
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Dual Enrollment in Vermont
Two vouchers, each covering tuition on a college course of up to four credits, for any Vermont student who has finished grade 10, including home study students.
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Dual credit in West Virginia
A state-funded pilot pays tuition and academic fees for courses on approved career pathways, for public, private, charter, microschool, learning pod, and homeschool students alike.
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Dual enrollment in Delaware
No statewide program makes it free. State regulation puts the policy on every district and charter, bars turning a student away over money, and most courses run through Delaware Tech.
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Dual enrollment in New Jersey
No statewide free tuition. Public colleges must sign dual enrollment agreements and districts choose whether to join, so the price and the eligibility rules come from your own county college.
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Dual enrollment in Connecticut
A board policy rather than a statute sets the rules. Concurrent credit courses are capped at $50 a credit, CT State covers two courses a semester for qualifying juniors and seniors, and UConn ECE has run since 1955.
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Accelerated learning in Oregon
Oregon calls the whole category accelerated learning. Dual credit at the high school is free or close to it at most community colleges, and Expanded Options moves a junior or senior onto a campus at no charge to the student.
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Dual enrollment in Nevada
Every district has to run a dual credit program, and no statute says who pays for it, so the price runs from $25 a credit at the high school to $154 on a university campus.
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Concurrent enrollment in Kansas
Concurrent enrollment means the college course is taught at the high school, and it is not free by default. Excel in CTE pays tuition for approved technical courses, and a district board may cover the rest if it chooses to.
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Dual Credit in Kentucky
A published $99 ceiling on what a college may charge a high school student, a statutory formula that reads differently, and a scholarship that funds two general education courses across junior and senior year.
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Dual Credit in Missouri
Missouri draws a line between dual credit and dual enrollment based on who teaches, and the price and the GPA tier both follow from that.
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Dual Credit in Idaho
Every Idaho public school student gets $4,625 to spend on college credit between grades 7 and 12, and the fund pays $75 a credit, which is what colleges charge.
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Dual Credit in North Dakota
Tuition is the family's here, at a reduced rate that changes with who teaches the course, and Bank of North Dakota covers two courses a year for students on free or reduced lunch.
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Dual Credit in South Dakota
Juniors and seniors split a deeply reduced tuition rate with the state, at $80.37 a credit hour, under a statute with a hard rule about what happens if a course goes badly.
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Dual and Concurrent Enrollment in Rhode Island
A state fund covers tuition and fees for part-time college courses at the three public institutions, and the statute behind it caps that fund at whatever the budget appropriates each year.
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Early College and Running Start in Hawaii
Two programs run off one statute that never says who pays. Early College comes to the high school and the school usually covers it; Running Start puts the student on a UH campus at that campus’s published rate.
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Dual Enrollment in Alaska
No state program and no state money behind it. What a college course costs an Alaska family depends on which University of Alaska campus offers it and whether the school district signed an agreement.
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Dual Enrollment in Montana
The first two courses or six credits carry no tuition anywhere in the Montana University System, fees are waived, and everything after that costs half of resident two-year tuition, around $60 a credit.
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Dual and Concurrent Enrollment in Wyoming
State law bars a college from charging a participating student for textbooks, materials, student services, or any other fee, and from 2026-27 the state starts reimbursing districts for what it costs them.
What is on each page
Each page covers who qualifies, what it costs, the deadlines families most often miss, and what to ask the counselor. Each one ends with the state and college pages the facts came from, so you can check any line against its source.
Sources were last read in September 2026. State rules move, sometimes in the middle of a legislative session, so confirm a deadline with your district before you plan around it.
Pages for individual colleges
The state sets the floor and one college runs the program, so the test score, the registration date, and the transfer behaviour are the college's. A few campuses now have their own page here, written the same way: dual enrollment, college by college.
My state is not here
We add states as families ask for them, so tell us which one you need and it moves up the list. In the meantime, the program almost certainly exists where you live under a different name, and your high school counselor is the fastest way to find out what it is called and who runs it.