Upward Bound
The Statistics
- The Upward Bound Program at FDTC serves only 70 students.
- Upward Bound participants are more than twice 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 Pee Dee area.
- Low Income Families
- Pee Dee Area 46%
- State 33%
- No High School Diploma
- Pee Dee Area 41%
- State 30.5%
- Earned BA Degree
- Pee Dee Area 12%
- State 16.4%
- Nationally 22 %