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West Virginia Leads in Informing Families about College Affordability
Colleges Select a Common Standard to Provide
Personalized Estimates of the True Cost of College
INDIANAPOLIS, IN – April 21, 2011 — West Virginia’s college-bound students and their families will soon have a clearer picture of their real cost of attending 16 of the state’s public colleges. TheWest Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission(WVHEPC) and the West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education(WVCTCE) are the first state agencies in the country to support the implementation of sophisticated, online netprice calculators (NPC) that will estimate merit and need-based aid for prospective college students before they apply to the colleges.