Harvard Law Can Afford To Eliminate Tuition, But Will It? Or Should It?

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[T]he money is there. Harvard could fundraise around this just like NYU did. And they might have some success.

— Kyle McEntee, executive director of Law School Transparency, commenting on the fact that Harvard Law School’s endowment is so large ($1.7 billion in 2015) that it would certainly be possible for the school to fund free tuition for all students. McEntee later suggested that rather than eliminating tuition altogether, perhaps it would be more intelligent for law schools to rework their operating costs to pass the savings along to students. “If you have a more sustainable model, one where tuition wouldn’t be approaching $70,000 at some schools, then it gets a lot more affordable for a school to make its tuition free.”

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