Free College
A free college education is more than just a presidential nominee’s seemingly impossible campaign promise. A handful of schools actually make it a reality.
For example, Berea College, in Berea, Ky., provides all students a four-year tuition scholarship that amounts to nearly $100,000. Alice Lloyd College—another Kentucky school—doesn’t require students from a 108-county area in Central Appalachia to pay tuition, but it does require students to work at least ten hours a week to offset the cost of their education. College of the Ozarks in Missouri also requires students to participate in a work program rather than pay tuition. The City College of San Francisco is scheduled to start offering free tuition to city residents for the Fall 2017 semester. And New York is the first state to make attending its public colleges free for residents with incomes of less than $125,000 a year.
