<p>USNWR has evaluated the record for Economic Diversity at the nations Top 25 National Universities. Emory was 7th in the country, tied with Harvard and Cornell. As USNWR notes, 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 .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.</p>
<p>Here is the NYT story on these rankings and the USWNR rankings for Economic Diversity among the USAs Top 25 National Universities:</p>
<p>NYTimes.comhttp://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/poor-students-at-rich-colleges/</p>
<p>Rank , % of Pell Grantees , College ( USNWR Ranking )</p>
<p>1 , 35% , UCLA ( 24 )
2 , 32% , UC BERKELEY ( 21 )
3 , 17% , Columbia ( 8 )
4 , 16% , Southern Cal ( 26 )
5 , 15% , MIT ( 4 )
5 , 15% , Dartmouth ( 11 )
7 , 14% , Harvard ( 1 )
7 , 14% , Cornell ( 15 )
7 , 14% , Emory ( 17 )
10 , 13% , Stanford ( 4 )
10 , 13% , U Chicago ( 8 )
12 , 12% , Brown ( 16 )
12 , 12% , Vanderbilt ( 17 )
12 , 12% , Caltech ( 4 )
15 , 11% , Carnegie Mellon ( 22 )
15 , 11% , Rice ( 17 )
15 , 11% , U Penn ( 4 )
18 , 10% , Johns Hopkins ( 14 )
18 , 10% , Northwestern ( 12 )
18 , 10% , Duke ( 10 )
18 , 10% , Georgetown ( 23 )
18 , 10% , Princeton ( 1 )
18 , 10% , Yale ( 3 )
24 , 9% , Notre Dame ( 20 )
25 , 8% , U VIRGINIA ( 24 )
26 , 7% , Wash U ( 12 )</p>