NYU is offering free tuition for all its current and future medical students

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• New York University School of Medicine announced on Thursday that it would cover full tuition for both its current and future medical students. 
• This makes them one of the first top 10–ranked medical school in the nation to do so.
• The coverage amounts to $55,018 per year, per student. It took NYU 11 years to raise enough funding to make the effort possible. 

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New York University said Thursday that it will cover tuition for all of its medical students — both current and future students — regardless of their ability to pay.

For the 2018-19 academic year, that coverage amounts to $55,018 for each student.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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