Cuomo already did that in NY. You have to meet income requirements, and it's for SUNY schools.
I think there should be mandatory curriculums. No worthless 4 year vacations that yield no job opportunity.
CUNY also used to have free tuition
Nobel laureates
Julius Axelrod 1933 – Nobel laureate in Medicine, 1970
Kenneth Arrow 1940 – Nobel laureate in Economics, 1972
Herbert Hauptman 1937 – Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1985
Robert Hofstadter 1935 – Nobel laureate in Physics, 1961
Jerome Karle 1937 – Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1985
Arthur Kornberg 1937 – Nobel laureate in Medicine, 1959
Leon M. Lederman 1943 – Nobel laureate in Physics, 1988
Arno Penzias 1954 – Nobel laureate in Physics, 1978
Robert J. Aumann 1950 – Nobel laureate in Economics, 2005
John O'Keefe, 1963 – Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2014
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_City_College_of_New_York_alumni