Alice Lloyd College (Kentucky)
The Apprentice School (Virginia)
Berea College (Kentucky)
Cal Poly Humboldt (California)
Curtis Institute of Music (Pennsylvania)
Deep Springs College (California)
United States Coast Guard Academy (Connecticut)
Reimagining the economics of learning
For decades, higher education in America has been the ultimate paradox, a gateway to prosperity shadowed by the burden of lifelong debt. The notion that a college degree guarantees opportunity has endured, but so too has the crippling cost that often accompanies it. Yet across the United States, a quiet revolution is taking shape—one that redefines what it means to earn an education.According to US News and World report, a select group of colleges has rejected the idea that quality education must come with an exorbitant price tag. From Kentucky’s Appalachian hills to California’s high desert, these institutions offer tuition-free education grounded in work, service, or extraordinary merit.
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