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Table 4
Percentage of full-time, full-year dependent undergraduates who received grants, and among those with grants, average amount received (in 1999 constant dollars), by family income and type of institution: 1989–90 and 1999–2000

  Percentage with grants
  Average amount
Family Income
and type of institution
1989–90 1999–2000   1989–90 1999–2000

    Total 44.8 56.9*   $4,200 $5,400*
Family income          
  Lowest quarter 77.0 83.8*   4,600 5,500*
  Lower middle quarter 48.8 60.1*   3,900 5,300*
  Upper middle quarter 36.6 47.5*   3,900 5,700*
  Highest quarter 20.3 38.5*   4,200 5,300*
           
Type of institution          
  Public 2-year 33.0 43.6*   1,900 2,400*
  Public 4-year 36.5 51.7*   3,200 3,800*
  Private not-for-profit 4-year 65.2 75.7*   6,200 9,000*
  Private for-profit less-than-4-year 57.1 63.4   2,900 2,900

*Represents statistically significant change from 1989–90.

SOURCE: Wei, C.C., Li, X., and Berkner, L. (2004). A Decade of Undergraduate Student Aid: 1989–90 to 1999–2000 (NCES 2004–158), tables 5, A-1.10, A-2.10,

 

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