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 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.
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 State University
Wilberforce, OH |
91% | |
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College of the Ozarks
Point Lookout, MO |
73% | |
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Lincoln College
Lincoln, IL |
70% | |
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Herzing University
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Madison, WI |
67% | |
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Olivet College
Olivet, MI |
61% | |
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Northwestern College
St. Paul, MN |
60% | |
|
Bethel College
Mishawaka, IN |
59% | |
|
Missouri Southern State University
Joplin, MO |
57% | |
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Kendall College
Chicago, IL |
57% | |
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MacMurray College
Jacksonville, IL |
57% | |
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Trine University
Angola, IN |
56% | |
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York College
York, NE |
56% | |
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Blackburn College
Carlinville, IL |
56% | |
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Defiance College
Defiance, OH |
55% | |
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Rochester College
Rochester Hills, MI |
55% | |
|
Culver-​Stockton College
Canton, MO |
54% | |
|
Tabor College
Hillsboro, KS |
54% | |
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Crown College
St. Bonifacius, MN |
53% | |
|
Maranatha Baptist Bible College
Watertown, WI |
53% | |
|
Dakota Wesleyan University
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Mitchell, SD |
52% | |
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Indiana University East
Richmond, IN |
52% | |
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Evangel University
Springfield, MO |
51% | |
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Missouri Western State University
St. Joseph, MO |
50% | |
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North Central University
Minneapolis, MN |
50% | |
|
Greenville College
Greenville, IL |
49% |
