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If you take the Pell Grant share as a rough indication of proportion of students that might get drop out or stretch out their study over longer times due to fin
by digikata 11y ago
If you take the Pell Grant share as a rough indication of proportion of students that might get drop out or stretch out their study over longer times due to financial straits, Vassar has a 22% share vs 40% for UC Irvine this year.
Also Vassar shows an endowment per student of 32x the top public university. So 4 year 75% grad rate is great, but note that the achievement is in the context of a smaller proportion of pressured students and access to much higher resources.
- Amorymeltzer 11y agoMy comment was more to compare last year's results and note why they were so different. The criteria changed, that's worth paying attention to. To a student, though, graduation rate is a very important number. There's some interesting info here on graduation rates at the UCs, broken down by pell and non-pell over 4, 5, and 6 years: http://accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu/2015/chapters/chapter-3.html#3.1.1 http://accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu/2015/chapte... Basically, there's a sizable but variable difference in 4-year graduation rate between pell and non-pell, but that all but vanishes in the 5- and 6-year rates. To your second point, of course. Harvard/Yale/Princeton/Stanford have over a million USD per student, no public school can compare to private on those ends.