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

We are still above Stanford on this one

The New York Times “The Upshot” created an index to measure colleges’ efforts on supporting low-income students and UC Berkeley came 7th.

This “College Access Index” 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.

This index allows them to rank the colleges, in order, from the college doing the most for low-income students to the college doing the least.

The UC schools dominate the top 10, with UC Irvine as the school doing the most for low-income students. Not surprisingly, UC Berkeley ranks above the private ivy league schools; Harvard lies at number 11, Princeton at number 18, and Yale at number 26. It does pay, if you will, to go to the number one public university in the world.

Before you cringe at our less-than-best ranking below UCLA (number 5) – Stanford is a lowly number 19.

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