University of New Mexico

UNM is New Mexico's public research university at Albuquerque, and it operates what may be the single most valuable automatic award for international undergraduates recorded anywhere. UNM states it plainly: 'Our most prestigious scholarship, the International Amigo Scholarship, grants international students (non-immigrant visa holders) the resident, in-state tuition rate. This means you will pay what a resident student from New Mexico pays. This is a value of over USD 27,000 per year!' Consideration requires no separate form: 'All undergraduate applicants are automatically considered for these generous scholarships – no additional application paperwork is needed!' The award is competitive rather than universal, and 'students who are awarded the Amigo Scholarship must meet renewal requirements each semester', so it must be sustained term by term rather than annually.