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Opportunities for students from families of the lowest socioeconomic status are not absent, but they are lower than those for students from families on the other end of the income spectrum. Our data show how they — and veterans, older students, parents, and students with disabilities — fare.


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Nearly 60 percent of undergraduates were ages 21 and under, and only 16 percent were ages 30 and older in the fall of 2017.
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College enrollment of adults 25 and older fell by more than 18 percent from the fall of 2011 to the fall of 2017.
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More than 44 percent of students whose families were in the lowest quintile for socioeconomic status never enrolled in college.
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Colleges with online offerings predominated among institutions that had the highest number of students receiving the education benefits.
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For-profit colleges were the least likely to have on-campus day-care centers for students’ children
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Colleges in the four-year public sector were the most likely to have had 4 percent or more of undergraduate students reporting disabilities.
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