Upward Bound Statistics

• The Upward Bound Program at CSU-Pueblo has a 91% success rate.
  
  
• Upward Bound participants are more than twice as likely to enroll in college.
  
  
• Upward Bound participants are four times as likely to earn a baccalaureate degree.
  

The need for the Upward Bound Program is very great in the Pueblo area.

• Low Income Families:
  
  • Pueblo 48%
  • Colorado 11%
    
    
• Those with no high school diploma:
  • Pueblo 28%
  • Colorado 15%
    
    
• Those with a BA degree:
  • Pueblo 7.7%
  • Colorado 18%
  • Nationally 25%
    
    
• The Upward Bound Program at CSU-Pueblo serves only 80 of a possible 5,000 students in School Districts #60 and #70.