Billions in federal financial aid is going to students who aren’t graduating - Jon Marcus, Hechinger Report

In all, only half of U.S. students at four-year universities and colleges who got Pell Grants in 2011 graduated within six years, an analysis of this data by Seton Hall University assistant professor of education Robert Kelchen shows. That compares to nearly 60 percent of all students. The proportion of Pell recipients who earned degrees within six years was lowest at for-profit institutions: 20 percent, the nonprofit education research group Ithaka S+R finds. Pell recipients fared best at private, nonprofit campuses, where 55 percent of them graduated. https://hechingerreport.org/billions-in-federal-financial-aid-is-going-to-students-who-arent-graduating/