Pell Grants at LAC’s:
Wesleyan 37%
Amherst 25%
Vassar 24%
Grinnell 22%
Bard 22%
Hampden-Sydney 20%
Mount Holyoke 20%
Williams 20%
Denison 20%
Occidental 20%
Pomona 20%
Lewis & Clark 19%
Wellesley 19%
Barnard 18%
Haverford 18%
Davidson 16%
Hamilton 16%
Middlebury 16%
Bowdoin 15%
Bryn Mawr 15%
Connecticut C 15%
Hobart & WS 15%
Swarthmore 15%
Carleton 13%
Rhodes 13%
Skidmore 13%
Trinity 13%
Colgate 12%
Harvey Mudd 12%
Bates 11%
Bucknell 11%
Dickinson 11%
Kenyon 10%
Oberlin 10%
Lafeyette 9%
Scripps 8%
Colby 7%
Washington & Lee 6%
Pell Grants at Universities:
New Mexico State U 82%
Texas Southern U 73%
UC Fresno 63%
UC Merced 62%
Arizona State 72%
Northcentral 64%
U of New Mexico 61%
UT El Paso 62%
Tennessee State 60%
UC Riverside 58%
U of Illinois 55%
Penn State 54%
Rutgers 53%
CA State Fullerton 52%
U of Montana 49%
San Francisco State 48%
Eastern Michigan 46%
Indiana State 46%
UC Irvine 46%
UC Santa Cruz 46%
Portland State 45%
Cleveland State 44%
UMASS-Boston 43%
UNC-Charlotte 43%
UC Davis 40%
UC Santa Barbara 40%
UMASS-Dartmouth 40%
San Diego State 38%
U of Idaho 37%
U of Washington 37%
Washington State 37%
UC San Diego 36%
Temple 35%
U of Maine 34%
U of Arizona 33%
UC Berkeley 33%
Columbia 32%
U of Connecticut 30%
UMASS-Lowell 30%
Drexel 27%
Syracuse 25%
U of Oregon 25%
Miami U 24%
U of Kentucky 24%
UMASS-Amherst 24%
Emory 23%
U of Southern California 23%
NYU 22%
UNC Chapel Hill 22%
Fordham 21%
Iowa State 21%
U of Alabama 21%
U of Minnesota-Twin Cities 21%
U of Missouri 20%
U of N Dakota 20%
Brandeis 19%
Tulane 19%
U of Iowa 19%
Harvard 18%
American 18%
MIT 17%
UC Boulder 17%
Yeshiva 17%
Brown 16%
Cornell 16%
U Michigan-Ann Arbor 16%
U of Pennsylvania 16%
U of Vermont 16%
Northwestern 15%
Virginia Tech 15%
Princeton 15%
Rice 15%
Stanford 15%
U of Delaware 15%
Boston U 15%
Dartmouth 14%
George Washington 14%
Lehigh 14%
Vanderbilt 14%
Yale 14%
Boston College 14%
CalTech 13%
Southern Methodist 13%
Tufts 13%
Villanova 13%
UW-Madison 12%
College of William & Mary 12%
Georgetown 12%
Johns Hopkins 12%
U of Virginia 12%
U of Chicago 11%
Notre Dame 10%
Wake Forest 10%
Washington U St. Louis 9%
@ucbalumnus I originally had it as CA State Fresno but changed it. My bad.
As for the other three, I’m guessing it’s combined because the report didn’t list them separately like it did for UMASS locations. I posted this because I thought it was interesting. Anyone wanting more detailed information for a particular school can google it.
@merc81
Neither report viewed had stats for Smith. When I look at their data, my best guess based on specific cohorts is between 480 to 500 students total receive Pell Grants, which would be roughly 18%.
Wow regarding Penn State. Many of those Pell-eligible families must be taking out large Parent Plus or private loans to send their kids there, as Penn State gives very little institutional need-based or merit aid. Even with maximum Pell and state grants, Penn State would cost families over $20,000 per year. I guess my daughter was right that most of her friends’ families pay for Penn State/Pitt/Temple by taking out loans. I’m one of the “mean” parents who refused to do so.
Where is the data coming from? It must be something other than % of Freshman/undergrads awarded Pell Grants. Many of the numbers quoted match the IPEDs Data, others are way off.
Another example:
Arizona state has multiple campuses, but the main campus (Tempe) is 28%/29%.
@kidzncatz Looking at the IPEDs data for Penn State (main campus), 45% of undergraduates take out a student loan, with an average amount of $9,540. Looks like about 9% of all undergraduates, are taking out student loans (at an average of $20K) other than Federal student loans. Ouch…
This is where I got the info. Title of article is “2018 Economic Diversity at National Liberal Arts Colleges” US News Rankings. I did notice the data was complied from 2015, 2016 but I’m surprised it would differ so substantially from what you posted.
University of Illinois has both University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana - which likely has lower pell grants than University of Illinois - Chicago. University of Illinois - Chicago has more commuters than residents, and that is likely where you’d see a lot of pell grants. UIUC is in a very small city surrounded by very rural areas - it’s not a commuter school for the most part
Though this chart shows that University of Illinois has only 22% for Pell Grant (and it also doesn’t distinguish between campuses). Where did you find 55%?
Agreed with Penn St. I saw the OP and was astounded. I read the later stats and those fit my image better, plus, I agree with ‘ouch’ for many. PA is not a terribly great state for helping its residents with college (or med schools).
A good 2017 chart on “Pell Grad” share (“Pell grad share for each college is the average share of the freshman class that received a Pell grant in 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16, multiplied by the graduation rate for recent Pell recipients”), and only colleges with 75%+ grad rates overall: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/25/sunday-review/opinion-pell-table.html
This number is so low … this is proof that most of the UChicago’s financial aid budget has NOT being used on need-based aid to assist those who truly need help. UChicago uses EDs to fill more than 2/3 of the class and has to pay those EA/RD students merit aid to attract them to attend. None of elite school needs to do such a thing.
Or maybe it’s difficult for Caltech and UChicago to recruit pell grant students who can withstand the academic rigor of these schools? Probably a better measure is how much is each student getting (on average) from these schools.
