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Wei, Christina Chang; Horn, Laura – National Center for Education Statistics, 2009
In 2006-07, the federal government awarded over $13 billion in Pell Grants to more than 5 million undergraduate students (U.S. Department of Education 2007). The goal of the Pell Grant program is to help students with financial need enroll in and graduate from college by providing them with a basic foundation of financial aid, to which they may…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Financial Needs, College Graduates, Statistical Analysis
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Horn, Laura; Berger, Rachael; Carroll, C. Dennis. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2004
The study compares the degree completion and persistence rates between two cohorts?students who first enrolled in postsecondary education in academic year 1989?90 and their counterparts who first enrolled in 1995?96. The analysis focuses on the rates at which students in each cohort completed a degree within 5 years or were still enrolled at the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Persistence, Graduation Rate, Time to Degree