The expansion will enable approximately 86% of U.S. families to qualify for Harvard College’s financial aid, the college said.

In November, MIT announced that students whose families make less than $200,000 will be able to attend tuition-free this fall. Similarly to Harvard, students whose families make less than $100,000 will pay nothing at all. Those income limits are from previous limits of $140,000 and $75,000 respectively.

Rights groups are concerned as a growing number of pro-Palestinian activists, including Jewish activists, are being photographed and surveilled.

Harvard University, renowned for its academic excellence, has bagged the top spot in as many as four areas of study in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025 released on Wednesday, March 12, 2025.

Like Columbia University, Harvard was among the schools whose leadership testified on Capitol Hill to defend their approach to campus protests.

Harvard University has become the latest target in the Trump administration’s approach to fight campus antisemitism

A federal antisemitism task force is reviewing more than $255 million in contracts between Harvard and the government after cutting $400 million from Columbia University.