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What percentage of college students are on some sort of financial aid?

Asked by davidb (74points) October 19th, 2009

What percentage of college students receive some sort of financial aid (e.g. from the govt, school/college, other need based scholarship programs, etc) annually? How much financial aid is given out in the U.S. across college students?

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jrpowell's avatar

You can start looking here.

Those are 2006/2007 numbers.

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65.5% of undergrads in ‘07—‘08 received some form of aid, according to the National Center for Education Statistics

Total financial aid for ‘07—‘08 was $162,501,000,000 according to The College Board

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Darwin's avatar

Rice University says 90% of their undergrads are, but then their tuition runs $45,000 per year.

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