St. John’s University, in New York, is offering graduates who have recently lost their jobs the chance to go back to college at half the usual price.
The university announced the Alumni Assistance Program this month. It includes a 50-percent tuition discount on graduate programs for alumni who were laid off in the economic downturn of the past six months and who enroll in the spring or summer of 2009.
The discount doesn’t include programs in the law school.
The university will also waive the $70 application fee and will offer job-search assistance and professional-development programs to alumni caught up in the recession. —Kathryn Masterson
