Yale Drama School scraps tuition after David Geffen donates $150 million

The Yale School of Drama is eliminating tuition for all current and future students after receiving a $150 million donation from billionaire David Geffen, the noted theater organization announced Wednesday. 

The Ivy League school said it would waive the cost of tuition for all drama students beginning with the upcoming fall semester, which starts in August. Annual tuition at the Yale School of Drama for the past academic year was $34,800. "This extraordinary and unprecedented gift ensures that from this day forward, in perpetuity, full-time students in degree and certificate programs will receive 100% tuition remission, beginning with the 2021–22 academic year. These programs are now, and always will be, 'tuition free,'" Yale said on its website.