Bronx medical students to receive free tuition after $1bn donation

A billion dollar gift will make medical education tuition free for more than 700 students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York City, a highly rated medical school in a poor area. The gift is intended to attract talented and diverse students who might otherwise not be able to become doctors.1About 70% of US medical students graduate with education debt averaging $200 000, according to a survey by the Association of American Medical Colleges. Annual tuition at Einstein is more than $59 000, and graduates have higher debt than those at other New York City medical schools.The billion dollar donation, one of the largest to a medical school in US history, comes from Ruth Gottesman, professor emerita of paediatrics at the medical school and widow of David Gottesman, a financier who founded the investment firm First Manhattan. When he died at 96 in 2022 his net…
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