Stanford is one of the best colleges for supporting low-income students

The New York Times “The Upshot” created an index to measure colleges’ efforts on supporting low-income students and Stanford came 19th.

This was calculated by a “College Access Index”. This is “based on the share of students who receive Pell grants (which typically go to families making less than $70,000); the graduation rate of those students; and the price that colleges charge both low- and middle-income students” says The Upshot article.

These results were then used to rank the college from those who do most for low-income students to colleges doing the least. Further, results also show colleges’ endowment per student, which is a “measure of the resources available to colleges”. Stanford came in with a whooping sum of $1.216m.

The UC schools dominate the top 10, with UC Irvine as the school doing the most for low-income students. UC Berkeley ranked number 7, Harvard lies at number 11, Princeton at number 18, and Yale at number 26.