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Forever Buckeye Ohio residency provision

The State of Ohio established a new provision called Forever Buckeye that extends the in-state tuition rate to Ohio high school graduates who had left Ohio but return to enroll in an Ohio public institution of higher education and establish a primary residence in Ohio by the first day of classes of the requested term. The Ohio State University is instituting the provision effective winter quarter 2012.

The Forever Buckeye provision waives the required 12-month period of establishing domicile in Ohio to qualify for in-the state tuition rate for students who:

1. were Ohio residents at the time of high school graduation,
2. graduated from a high school in Ohio (does not include home-schooled students or GED recipients),
3. have the current legal status to remain permanently in the United States,
   and
4. have established primary residence in Ohio as of the first day of classes for the requested term. (January 3, 2012, for winter quarter, 2012)

For more information about Forever Buckeye, go to: http://registrar.osu.edu/residency/forever_buckeye.pdf