Dr. Ruth Gottesman, a longtime professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is making free tuition available to all students going forward.
The 93-year-old widow of a Wall Street financier has donated $1 billion to a Bronx medical school, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, with instructions that the gift be used to cover tuition for all students going forward.
The Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx is now tuition-free as a result of a $1 billion donation from former professor Dr. Ruth Gottesman.
In a world where much smaller gifts frequently come with the requirement that the colleges be named after the donor, Gottesman, whose late husband was an early investor with Warren Buffett, has made it clear in her gift request that the college NOT change its name.
The majority of Einstein College of Medicine graduates now have no debt, having previously incurred $200,000 in student loans.
