Pregnant and Parenting Students
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2026 Campus Pregnancy Support Study
Demand that school provide better accommodations for pregnant and parenting students. These students looking to complete their degrees face unique challenges, including the cost of raising a child, limited access to child care, housing concerns, transportation issues, and more.
Too often, these challenges lead students to feel like they must choose between earning a degree and choosing Life for their preborn child.
Students for Life of America (SFLA) believes that no student should ever have to make that choice. So, we conducted the Campus Pregnancy Support Study to examine how well campuses support pregnant and parenting students.
While most state colleges and universities provide at least some accommodations for pregnant and parenting students, we found that many lack the support needed to help these students choose Life.
Key Findings
Here's What We Found:
- The vast majority of schools (98.6%) are missing at least two recommended accommodations for pregnant and parenting students.
- Schools provide an average of 6.6 of the 12 accommodations evaluated.
- Across all colleges and universities evaluated, the average rating on our scale was just 3.1 stars.
- Over three-quarters of schools provide pregnancy testing (81.2%), and nearly 75% offer referrals for pregnancy support resources — yet the practical support a woman needs after receiving a positive test is far rarer.
- Maternity parking is available at fewer than 1 in 10 schools (8.9%), making it the least common accommodation.
- On-campus family housing is unavailable at 72.7% of schools.
- The vast majority (84.8%) of schools do not offer scholarships specifically for pregnant or parenting students.
- Nearly half (46.1%) of schools lack on-campus child care services.
- Almost 40% of schools do not list pregnancy or parenting accommodations on their websites, meaning a student in crisis may never learn what help exists.
- Nearly 90% of schools (89.9%) include a pregnancy and parenting student policy on their website or student handbook, making it the most common accommodation.
- Four out of five schools (80.1%) have lactation rooms.
The Dirty Dozen
Through our research, SFLA identified the Dirty Dozen 12 schools that received 1.5 stars or less on our national on our rating scale. These colleges represent the worst schools for pregnant students.
Contact the schools below and demand that they provide critical support for pregnant & parenting students.
- Concord University
- Dakota State University
- Dalton State College
- Elizabeth City State University
- Fairmont State University
- Indiana State University
- Mayville State University
- McNeese State University
- Radford University
- Rhode Island College
- The College of the Florida Keys
- University of Wisconsin–Parkside
Request Your Action Toolkit
The Dirty Dozen aren't the only schools with room to improve. In fact, only seven of the 553 colleges and universities we graded received five stars.
That's where you come in.
When you fill out the form below, we'll send you the FREE tools you need to contact your school and tell them to help pregnant and parenting students choose Life.