Summary
Harvard announced that, starting in the 2025-2026 academic year, it will not charge tuition for students from families earning under $200,000.
Students from households making less than $100,000 will attend for free. Previously, free tuition applied only to families earning under $85,000.
The expansion aims to make Harvard more accessible to middle-income families.
This follows similar moves by other wealthy universities, including MIT, which expanded its financial aid last November.
idk how it works in the US but in the UK you have to provide evidence that you’ve been living without any family support for more than 3 years, I had a housemate who had to work every hour he didn’t have lectures because he’d only been on his own for 2 and a half years. Granted that it only affected his maintenance loan and not the tuition loan but he still couldn’t afford to eat.