Expanding College Access and Success

Far too many talented, lower income students do not even apply to — let alone attend and graduate from — the top colleges and universities for which they are qualified. Bloomberg Philanthropies aims to expand access to higher education through the American Talent Initiative, which works with colleges and universities to help them recruit high-achieving, lower-income students, and the CollegePoint program, which provides free virtual advising to students to help them apply to the nation’s top colleges. Mike Bloomberg also gave the largest gift in the history of American higher education to allow Johns Hopkins University, his alma mater, to accept students without regard to their ability to pay in perpetuity.