Residents of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area now can attend Wichita State University for the same cost as Kansas residents.

The tuition assistance program - called Shocker City Partnership - applies to residents of the following counties in Texas: Collin, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant, Wise, Somervell and Hood.

The tuition rate applies to undergraduate and graduate students. Undergraduate students enrolling in 15 hours per semester would save more than $8,700 per year with this new rate. Graduate students enrolling in nine hours per semester save more than $3,700 per year.

Shocker City Partnership was rolled out in 2015 for Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma, residents.

Students from Texas and Oklahoma who live in counties outside the Dallas-Fort Worth, Oklahoma City and Tulsa metropolitan areas are still eligible for the Shocker Select program, which gives eligible students a 33 percent discount off nonresident tuition.

With these two programs, Wichita State is the most affordable large research university in the area.

Get more information on the Shocker City Partnership.

See information on specific tuition rates.