Low-income students aren’t graduating from college at same rate as higher-income students
“The numbers are clear. ‘It’s a really a crisis among low-income students to complete college,’ said Robert Kelchen, a higher education professor at Seton Hall University. That’s true across the nation and in Michigan. According to federal data tracking those who enrolled in college in 2011 and whether they had graduated six years later, students getting a federal grant and going to a Michigan four-year college or university graduated, on average, 43 percent of the time. That’s 15 percentage points lower than those who didn’t have a Pell Grant.”