Economic Diversity Regional Colleges (Midwest)
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 2009-2010 school year data on the number of Pell grant recipients at each school collected by the U.S. Dept. of Education and given to U.S. News and fall 2009 total undergraduate enrollment collected from the colleges themselves by U.S. News.
These rankings are split into 4 regions: North, South, Midwest, and West.
| Save | School | Percent of undergraduates receiving Pell grants: |
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Central Methodist University
Fayette, MO | 87% | |
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Central State University
Wilberforce, OH | 83% | |
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Harris-Stowe State University
St. Louis, MO | 82% | |
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College of the Ozarks
Point Lookout, MO | 64% | |
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Olivet College
Olivet, MI | 56% | |
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Indiana University East
Richmond, IN | 54% | |
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MacMurray College
Jacksonville, IL | 54% | |
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Kendall College
Chicago, IL | 52% | |
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Trine University
Angola, IN | 51% | |
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Bethel College
Mishawaka, IN | 51% | |
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Blackburn College
Carlinville, IL | 50% | |
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Northwestern College
St. Paul, MN | 49% | |
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Dakota Wesleyan University
Mitchell, SD | 49% | |
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Missouri Southern State University
Joplin, MO | 48% | |
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York College
York, NE | 47% | |
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Tabor College
Hillsboro, KS | 46% | |
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Defiance College
Defiance, OH | 46% | |
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Culver-Stockton College
Canton, MO | 46% | |
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Crown College
St. Bonifacius, MN | 45% | |
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Maranatha Baptist Bible College
Watertown, WI | 45% | |
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Midland Lutheran College
Fremont, NE | 45% | |
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Marian University
Indianapolis, IN | 45% | |
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Missouri Western State University
St. Joseph, MO | 44% | |
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Greenville College
Greenville, IL | 44% | |
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Sterling College
Sterling, KS | 43% |
