"Community colleges may be the bargain of higher education, but many students who attend them cannot reasonably afford them, according to a new analysis by the Institute for College Access and Success," The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. "Community-college students enrolled full time are more likely than their counterparts at both public and private four-year colleges to have unmet financial need after receiving student aid. Eighty percent of full-time students who demonstrated need at community colleges received less money than they needed, compared with 54 percent at public four-year institutions and 53 percent at private four-year colleges."

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