Tuition-free
adj.hopeful, kindprofessional
What it means
Provided without charging students the instructional fee called tuition.
Reach for it when describing education whose tuition charge is zero while keeping other costs visible
The institute offers tuition-free evening courses to residents changing careers.
Choose between these
5- playful
on the house
when a one-off informal offer is being celebrated
not when The hospitality idiom trivializes sustained education funding.
- everyday
free-tuition
when the same benefit needs a less common reversed compound
not when Free-tuition is awkward and may be mistaken for instruction about freedom.
- warm
free to attend
when plain access language matters more than fee terminology
not when Attendance may be free while assessment, credits, or materials still cost money.
- professional
fully funded
when an identified funder covers tuition and possibly living costs
not when Fully funded is a broader and stronger promise.
- professional
no-fee
when a program charges no stated participation fee
not when No-fee can imply all costs are absent, including materials or registration.
Said against
3- fee-paying
- tuition-charging
- full-price
It naturally appears in
3- tuition-free college
The tuition-free college publishes every remaining student cost.
- tuition-free program
A tuition-free program trained two hundred home-care workers.
- tuition-free education
Tuition-free education opened the course to mid-career parents.
Where this comes from
Tuition-free does not necessarily cover books, housing, travel, registration, or living expenses.
Tuition-free is not a headword in the dictionaries below. The sense was checked against their entries for tuition, and the definition and example here are written for Tuition-free itself.
- Wiktionary, the entry for tuition, English noun sense: a fee charged for instruction opens in a new tab · retrieved 2026-07-26
The definition and the example on this page are written here. The dictionaries above ground which meaning is being described, not the wording.