Texas has 90 private and 60 public 4-year colleges that enroll 116,361 first-year students yearly. The average tuition of public colleges is $19,952 for in-state students and $29,056 for out-of-state and international students.

Private colleges in Texas charge around $28,364 per year in tuition regardless of residency.

In the 2021-2022 academic year, Texas provided $217.8 million in financial aid to 43,276 students who enrolled in 4-year colleges for the first time as undergraduates. In addition, the colleges themselves awarded $624.2 million in grants and scholarships to 69,324 students.

Texas receives 9.5% of the total pell grant the federal government allocates. In the 2021-2022 academic year, 55,822 4-year college first-year undergraduates were awarded a total amount of $289 million in pell grant ($5,154 per student on average), and 48,399 students received a total amount of $258.4 million in the form of student loans from the federal government ($5,906 per student on average).