A different sort of ranking

carolyn
Wed, 18 May 2005 23:00:21 +0000

Mini, To a certain extent you are right. HOWEVER, there are schools with high rates of low income students (as measured by Pell grants) that do a decent job of getting kids out in 4 years so I don’t think it is solely a matter of income as much as it is where the school sets priorities in terms of supporting those low income students. Here’s an interesting article that looks at several of these schools, all of which, Blue, have higher graduation rates than the UC’s. See, in particular, Alcorn State, with something like 70% pell grant recipients.