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...Today approximately one-quarter of the school's 780 students are city residents, with the rest spread across the inner and outer suburbs. The school allocated $1.4 million in financial aid this year to students who could not afford the $9,990 tuition. "We will not turn away any student who is qualified to come here," says U of D principal Gary Marando...
Over the past decade, the College has begun to offer increasingly generous financial aid packages, often with the stated intention of freeing students from working term-time jobs to cover their tuition costs...
Last year, Harvard Law School went a step further in promoting public service careers as an attractive option for graduates by offering tuition waivers for third-year students who commit to working in public service for five years. This fall, according to Law School Director of Student Financial Services Kenneth H. Lafler, 58 third-year students have signed up for the initiative, which will be run for five years as a trial program, with a budget of $3 million per year...
...local-organic foodies behind California cuisine going after Big Ag. It's Kaiser Permanente, the HMO whose model of salaried doctors in group practice may be the future of health care, or the University of California at Irvine's law school, which opened this semester with free tuition and was instantly more selective than Harvard or Yale. It's SpaceX, the private rocket-launching company, or Kogi, the Korean taco truck that announces its location over Twitter to flash mobs of Angelenos. "The beauty of California is the idea that you can reinvent yourself and do something totally creative," says...
...pocket costs have drifted down: While tuition and fees have risen by up to 20% since 2004, the average net price of college has dropped. Due to the greater availability of grants, financial assistance and tax benefits, students pay an average of $1,100 less at private schools and $400 at public schools than they did five years ago. (The aid and benefits total $14,400 at private schools, $5,400 at public four-year schools and $3,000 at public two-year schools). In fact, after benefits, an average student at a two-year college or university pays nothing...