Pell Grants are awarded by the federal government to low-income students-generally those whose parent incomes are below $45,000 or who are considered to be financially independent from their parents.

The percentage of undergraduate students with Pell Grants provides a useful means to compare different institutions in terms of how accessible they are to low-income students. It is also useful in comparing institutions in terms of their undergraduates' socioeconomic backgrounds.

As a system, the University enrolled a higher percentage of Pell Grant recipients in 2007-08 (33 percent) than any of its public or private comparison institutions.

Sources: Enrollment figures come from Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) 12 Month Enrollment Survey. Additional information can be found at http://nces.ed.gov/IPEDS.

These enrollment data exclude non-resident aliens, who are not eligible to receive Pell Grants. Data for SUNY-Buffalo are from 2006-07. Pell Grant recipient counts were obtained from the U.S. Department of Education Common Origination and Disbursement website.

You may view or download a table of the raw data used to generate these charts in CSV files, which can be opened in spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice.

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