1. The Economic Diversity of the Student Population. Californians should take pride in 6 different UC campuses typically making U.S. News and World Report’s list of the country’s "Top 50 National Universities," and also feel good about the fact that these campuses score so well within that top tier in educating students from lower income brackets. Using data from 2006 (passed on to me by an economic historian colleague who is better with numbers than I am) that provided a breakdown of percentages of students enrolled at top universities who had received Pell Grants (usually given to families with a total income of less than around $50,000), UC campuses were ranked numbers 1. (UCLA), 2. (Berkeley), 3. (UCSD), 4. (Davis), 5. (Irvine), and 6. (Santa Barbara). The spread among these six UC campuses ran from 37% of the student body being Pell Grant recipients at UCLA to 25% at UCSB; only two other top schools clocked in at over 20%: the University of Florida and the University of Texas-Austin.

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by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, The Huffington Post.

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