Cadets at West Point receive a full scholarship and an annual salary to pay expenses. Graduates owe five years of active service.
Even as the price tag of a four-year college degree outpaces inflation, a handful of U.S. colleges and universities are going to extraordinary lengths to contain costs — by picking up full tuition for every student they enroll. Most colleges offering free tuition are military academies; several are engineering schools, where graduates are in short supply and demand is great.
