Graduation rates are lower for Pell Grant recipients than for low- and moderate-income students who’ve taken high school courses of similar rigor and earned similar test scores, writes Matthew Denhart of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity.
His analysis concludes that 46 percent of Pell recipients at public four-year institutions earn a bachelor’s degree in six years; 51 percent of comparable non-recipients complete a degree. At private four-year schools, 56 percent of Pell recipients and 68 percent of comparable non-recipients complete a bachelor’s degree in six years.
Denhart doesn’t have figures for Pell recipients at community colleges.
