What Colleges Contribute: Institutional Aid to Full-Time Undergraduates Attending 4-Year Colleges and Universities. Postsecondary Education Descriptive Analysis Reports

摘要

This study provides information about recent trends in institutional aid receipt and then examines the relationship between such aid and the likelihood of recipients staying enrolled in the awarding institution relative to comparable unaided students. The trend analysis is based on data gathered from three administrations of the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, conducted in 1992-93, 1995-96, and 1999-2000, and the retention analysis is based on data from the first and second follow-ups to the 1995-96 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study. BPS followed a cohort of students who first enrolled in college in 1995-96 and were last surveyed in 2001, about 6 years after their initial enrollment. Only full-time students attending 4-year public and private not-for-profit institutions were included in these analyses.