Pell Grants at Selective Colleges

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  1. warguns

    warguns Member

    http://72.32.39.237:8080/Plone/publications/pdfs/pb230/pellgrant.pdf

    Not directly distance education but very interesting. This report shows the proportion of students at "most selective" and "highly selective" colleges and universities that receive Pell Grants. Proportion of Pell Grant recipients is widely used as a surrogate for low income student. (Note data from 2001).

    the most recent data available from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, a nationally representative survey of students conducted for the Department in the 1999-2000 academic year, indicates that 90 percent of all dependent Pell Grant recipients in 4-year institutions came from families with incomes below $41,000, and 75 percent of all Pell recipients had family income below $32,000. While these exact proportions cannot be compared to all families nationally, data from the 2000 Census can be used to approximate the distribution of all families with children under 18 years. In 1999, approximately 41 percent of all families with children had incomes below $40,000, and
    29 percent had incomes below $30,000. Thus, it is clear that the income distribution of Pell Grant recipients is much lower than that of all families with children in the nation.


    Of "most competitive" institutions, Columbia U/ Bernard College had the highest rate at 18%. For "highly competitive", Lyon College (AK) and BYU (31%) were the highest for private schools while among public universities, Rutgers Engineering and the UCs had high proportions (35% at UCLA).
     

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