Exceptions and Special Programs

You may be eligible for Colorado residency if your parents had a Colorado domicile for four or more years and then moved to another state after you completed your junior year of high school. This is only applicable if you enrolled at a Colorado public college or university within three years and six months after your parents left Colorado. Please contact the Office of Admissions for the appropriate form and documentation that will need to be submitted prior to the first day of your first semester.

If your employer moved their company operations to Colorado as a result of receiving an incentive from the Colorado Office of Economic Development, you may be eligible for Colorado residency for tuition purposes. The employee (you) must have been employed by the employer prior to the relocation and show you have established a domicile in Colorado. Please contact the Office of Admissions for the appropriate form and documentation that will need to be submitted prior to the first day of your first semester.

Dependents of new faculty members (but NOT the faculty member or the spouse) at a state-supported institution of higher education are eligible for Colorado residency for tuition purposes. A faculty member is defined as academic faculty with regular and special appointments of 50% time or greater. Adjunct faculty and Administrative Professionals are not eligible. A dependent child must be an unmarried, undergraduate student and under the age of 23 on or before the first day of class. Please contact the Office of Admissions for the appropriate form and documentation that will need to be submitted prior to the first day of your first semester.

A student who meets the below criteria is eligible for in-state tuition classification. This includes U.S. Citizens, permanent residents and students without lawful immigration status. A student can qualify for resident tuition regardless of emancipation, parent domicile or parent citizenship.

• Enrolled for at least three years at a public/private Colorado high school immediately preceding graduation or earning a GED
• Admission into Colorado institution of higher education/attends a reciprocal program within 12 months of high school graduation or earning a GED
• Students without lawful immigration status are required to submit an affidavit (onetime on the COF website) stating that the student has applied for lawful presence or will apply as soon as he or she is eligible to do so. Once you have been admitted to CSU Pueblo and have completed the COF affidavit please contact the Office of Admissions.

Students who graduated from a Colorado high school or completed GED prior to September 1, 2013, and were not admitted into a Colorado university or college within 12 months of graduation but meet ALL other eligibility criteria, may qualify for in-state tuition by providing documentation to the school proving that the student has been physically present in Colorado for eighteen months prior to enrolling. Please contact the Office of Admissions if you have questions.

In-state student status can be granted to a child who moves to Colorado during their senior year of high school as the result of their parent or legal guardian taking a job that requires relocating to Colorado. The child must be a legal resident of the US and must have moved with their parents or legal guardian to CO during their senior year of high school and then graduated from a CO public high school. Please contact the Office of Admissions for the appropriate form and documentation that will need to be submitted prior to the first day of your first semester.