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The university in Connecticut expanded its financial aid program for students enrolling next year.
There are two significant changes.
Families making up to $100,000 a year will have attendance at Yale entirely free.
That number was raised up from $75,000.
That's in addition to waiving the cost of tuition for those below the $200,000 threshold.
Many other Ivy League schools have similar offerings, including Harvard, which announced the same thresholds last year.
Across the country, about 100 other colleges offer some sort of tuition-free program.
The latest fall 2025 enrollment numbers show an uptick of about 20,000 students compared with the fall of 2024.
That's according to the nonprofit National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
While enrollment is slightly up, the biggest takeaway is that where students are going and not going is shifting.
The growth at community colleges was driven by big gains in short-term workforce training programs, while private four-year college and master's programs saw declines.
There was also a big drop in enrollment for international students in graduate programs.
Part of the deal would require Northwestern University, an elite school outside Chicago, to pay the government $75 million over the next three years.
In exchange, the government will unfreeze $790 million in research funding that was canceled last spring over accusations of racial discrimination and anti-Semitism.
The agreement allows the college to retain full academic freedom and says the Trump administration will end all open investigations into the school.
This deal follows similar deals the Trump administration has made with Cornell University, Brown University, and Columbia University.