free tuition

No school fees

Free tuition is an educational policy where students pay nothing for instruction, with costs covered by government funding, endowments, or other sources.

The term appears most often in debates about higher education: The candidate promised free tuition at public universities.

Critics sometimes note that "free" means taxpayer-funded rather than costless.

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cost to student

free tuitionstudent loans

Borrowed funds for tuition

student debt · tuition fees · tuition costs · loan repayment

funding model

free tuitionfor-profit education

Education operated as business

Family

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