Portraits: Initial College Attendance of Low-Income Young Adults
Posted by on June 20, 2011
Portraits: Initial College Attendance of Low-Income Young Adults
Institute for Higher Education Policy
In this brief, experts at the Institute for Higher Education Policy suggest that poverty still matters a great deal in terms of the types of institutions at which young adults are initially enrolling. In particular, they find that low-income students—between ages 18 and 26 and whose total household income is near or below the federal poverty level—are likely to be overrepresented at for-profit institutions and are likely to be underrepresented at public and private nonprofit four-year institutions.
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