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    Cost, Aid, & Our Green Light Guarantee

    SMC’s tuition is about half the cost of a 4-year school. We also offer a variety of scholarships—from academic merit-based scholarships to scholarships for specific majors, scholarships for students who have leadership experience, or those who come from a specific community or high school. In addition, we offer athletic scholarships, technology scholarships, and so much more. 

    Our Financial Aid office helps you sort through and apply for the scholarships that are available to you. The bottom line is that you can complete your degree for a lot less money than you might think! And we’re here to help.

    MICHIGAN RESIDENTS
    If you're a high school student living in Michigan, check out SMC's Green Light Guarantee. The Green Light Guarantee scholarship program, which begins in Fall 2025, is our commitment to you to provide accessible and affordable education, ensuring that all Michigan high school graduates living in Michigan can attend SMC tuition-free. That's right: free tuition, a bigger value, and a brighter future. 

    If affordability is one of the biggest concerns that you have when choosing a college, SMC is going to be one of the best options for you. Not only is our tuition super low but we've got you know so many different scholarship opportunities, whether it be academically, athletic scholarships, we offer a lot of scholarships for clubs sports, even.

    It really helps a lot and SMC's got so many scholarships, like, they're making a way for you to go to school and get that education that you deserve.

    Your Gen Eds can be done here at a lower cost. We use the same textbooks as every large university and they have a community. And the community is the biggest thing. I've been in classes as low as seven people. And with that, I get to build relationships with my professor that really just brings it all together and that's what makes it feel like a tight-knit community and not just an institution [inaudible].

    You also have a lot of opportunities to work on campus and SMC as well. I worked throughout school and I used that money to pay my tuition as I went along.

    Graduating SMC without debt is very reassuring, teaching me that I made the right choices attending SMC, and not just that but it makes me feel more confident not having financial burden holding me down or holding my goals down, or limiting myself.

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