Looking for a suspension lift that I can afford while in college. I know that I can SAS, Duff, or SJ, but they all seem to far out of my budget for now. What cheaper lift is of good quality?

unless you find it used or build it yourself you wont find those words (Good/cheap lift) together.

Yep, thats usually how it is.

Probably the closest you'll come to that is with the Tuff Country kit. It gives you two full new replacement axle brackets that won't bust open your diff housing, although none of the brackets are particularly sturdy (should hold up perfectly fine for casual dirt-road wheeling, but rockcrawling would quickly fatigue them though).