Economic Diversity National Universities
Economic diversity has received growing attention in higher education, particularly at elite schools that haven't traditionally enrolled large numbers of low-income students or students from low-income families. This table shows the percentage of undergraduates receiving federal Pell grants for low-income students.
The proportion of students on Pell grants, which are most often given to undergrads with family incomes under $20,000, isn't a perfect measure of an institution's efforts to achieve economic diversity: A college might enroll a large number of students just above the Pell cutoff, for instance, and percentages at public universities may reflect the wide variation from state to state in the number of qualified low-income students.
Still, many experts say that Pell figures are the best available gauge of how many low-income undergrads there are on a given campus. Pell grant percentages were calculated using 2010-2011 school year data on the number of Pell grant recipients at each school collected by the U.S. Department of Education and given to U.S. News and fall 2010 total undergraduate enrollment collected from the colleges themselves by U.S. News.
| Save | School | Percent of undergraduates receiving Pell grants: |
|---|---|---|
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University of Dayton
Dayton, OH |
15% | |
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Boston University
Boston, MA |
15% | |
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Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA |
15% | |
|
American University
Washington, DC |
15% | |
|
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA |
15% | |
|
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL |
15% | |
|
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN |
15% | |
|
Catholic University of America
Washington, DC |
15% | |
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Yale University
New Haven, CT |
15% | |
|
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD |
14% | |
|
Duke University
Durham, NC |
14% | |
|
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA |
14% | |
|
University of Delaware
Newark, DE |
14% | |
|
Tufts University
Medford, MA |
14% | |
|
George Washington University
Washington, DC |
13% | |
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College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA |
13% | |
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Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC |
13% | |
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Georgetown University
Washington, DC |
13% | |
|
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA |
13% | |
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University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN |
13% | |
|
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ |
12% | |
|
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA |
11% |
