What if the sectors which benefit from the education of our society subsidize a percentage of these students. Use a portion of fines from civil cases brought by the government to fund scholarships for legal studies. Settlements from healthcare and pharmaceutical suits fund scholarships for these studies. Same with finance, environmental, infrastructure… incentivize businesses for sponsorship for students with preferable status of grants, permitting or contracts. This could be applied to donations for the education of the arts as well. If universities are awarded grants and research funding, attach a condition that they need to give a free ride to “X” amount of low income students. This doesn’t have to be mandatory, either they contribute or they have lower preferential status.