EDT180B

Group Project
Group B2: Michelle Franklin, Audra Pettit & Halimah Alkhatib

How do students pay for

We
asked 255 people:
college?
Gender
Grade Level
Ethnicity
We also asked them how they paid for their tuition:
Loans
Grants
Scholarships

Financial Aid use

Shows the
number of
people that did
or did not use
each type of
financial aid.
We found that
the most
common form
of financial aid
that people
used is student
loans.

Ethnicity to financial aid

Stacked bar graph
Types of
scholarships used
based on ethnicity

Student loans
Bar graph
Amount of
females and
males receiving
student loans

friends/family help
Stacked bar graph
Amount of males and
females that received
financial aid from friends
and family

Scholarships
Pie chart
Amount of males
and females that
have earned and
accepted
scholarships

federal aid
Bar graph
Amount of federal
aid that was
accepted and
received by
students that took
the survey

What we found:
1.Most common form of financial
aid is student loans

Analysis/C
onclusion

2.More females and caucasians

are using financial aid

Problems we encountered:
3.Different ethnicities selected as
many forms of financial aid that
applied.
4.Different genders selected as
many types of financial aid that
applied.

Analysis/Conclusio
n Continued...
To make the results more accurate, we would change
the question to ask what type of financial aid each
student uses the most.

Thank
you!