ANDERSON, Ind. — For those students receiving bachelor’s degrees within six years in 2010 at Anderson University, 35.3 percent were Pell grant recipients, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
That gave AU a higher recipient rate than some other private universities in the state like Taylor or Indiana Wesleyan.
At Taylor University in 2010, 18.2 percent of those students received the grants while 24.2 percent did at Indiana Wesleyan University.
AU’s Brent Baker, vice president for student affairs and dean of students, said it is a student’s and his or her parents’ socioeconomic status that determines whether a Pell grant is received or not and has “nothing to do with what the university is doing.”
To receive state or federal aid, a student must fill out the FAFSA.
Pell grants are federal grants and the amount given depends “on financial need, costs to attend school, status as a full-time or part-time student and plans to attend school for a full academic year or less,” according to the U.S. Department of Education.
The maximum amount for the 2011-12 award year was $5,550, according to the DOE.
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