<p>Those are some really sketchy statistics.</p>
<p>The Princeton Review non-scientic survey of students is essentially asking “how hard is it to make ends meet?” with their financial aid ranking. Howard could have fine financial aid (I have no idea) and score very low on this question if a high percentage of students are low-income.</p>
<p>The NIH funding examples you gave are apples and oranges. The UC-San Francisco entry is the graduate and professional school of the largest state university system in the country. It is a major graduate research, medical, and dental institution and thus would get huge amounts of research funding from NIH. It’s like comparing the NIH funding of Harvard Medical School and Amherst: apples and oranges.</p>