By Nico Savidge, EdSource
More than 1.3 million low- and middle-income students attend California’s public colleges and universities each year without having to pay tuition, thanks to financial aid programs in each of the state’s higher education systems that cover those bills.
A California law that allows for a free first year of tuition at the state’s community colleges made headlines in 2017.
But close to half of students at the 114 California community colleges already attended tuition free before the law was signed. At four-year universities, about 60 percent of students in the 23 campus California State University system, and the same share of in-state undergraduates in the 10-campus University of California system, attend tuition free as well.
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