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TRIO McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement

This Department of Education (ED) program is designed to provide support services to low-income, first-generation college students to prepare them for doctoral programs. Program funds are awarded to institutions of higher education for services such as tutoring, research opportunities, counseling and internships.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The program is well-targeted to disadvantaged students who are underrepresented in graduate education. More than 70% of participants are low-income, first-generation college students.
  • Approximately 56 percent of participants enroll in graduate school within a year of receiving their bachelor's degree, and 80 percent of participants who enroll in graduate school persist from the first year to the second year.
  • The program met or exceeded its annual performance targets in areas such as graduate school enrollment and persistence.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Calculating a third year of grantee-level performance data and program-level efficiency data and making the data available to the public.
  • Calculating grantee-level graduate school persistence rate data and making these data available to the public on the web.
  • Taking steps to better link rewards for past performance with the achievement of key program goals.

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