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Fairfield U Has Lowest Share of Pell Recipients

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November 21, 2022

Fairfield University has the lowest percentage of Pell Grant recipients of any college in the U.S., The New York Times reported.

Fairfield enrolls only 7.5 percent. The data come from a study by James Murphy for the organization Education Reform Now. Tied for second place, at 8.1 percent, were Tulane University and Bates College.

Corry Unis, Fairfield’s vice president for strategic enrollment management, said, “Built upon the bedrock of a sustainable academic and economic model, we continue to work to make Fairfield more accessible to as many students as possible.”

Scott Jaschik

Scott Jaschik, Editor, is one of the three founders of Inside Higher Ed. With Doug Lederman, he leads the editorial operations of Inside Higher Ed, overseeing news content, opinion pieces, career advice, blogs and other features. Scott is a leading voice on higher education issues, quoted regularly in publications nationwide, and publishing articles on colleges in publications such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Salon, and elsewhere. He has been a judge or screener for the National Magazine Awards, the Online Journalism Awards, the Folio Editorial Excellence Awards, and the Education Writers Association Awards. Scott served as a mentor in the community college fellowship program of the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, of Teachers College, Columbia University. He is a member of the board of the Education Writers Association. From 1999-2003, Scott was editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education. Scott grew up in Rochester, N.Y., and graduated from Cornell University in 1985. He lives in Washington.