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National Association of College and University Business Officers, Washington, DC. – 1996
This collection of charts is intended to be used by participants in the tuition discounting study to interpret and present institutional results vis-a-vis comparative peer groups. The three peer groups included in the study are: small colleges, lower tuition; small colleges, higher tuition; and large colleges and universities. The document is…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Finance, Educational Vouchers, Grants
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1990
The report provides information on the possible impact of revised eligibility requirements on the volume of supplemental loans for students (SLS). These are market-rate loans made to postsecondary students in addition to or in lieu of other financial aid, such as Stafford loans (formerly called guaranteed student loans) and Pell grants. The data…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Eligibility, Federal Legislation
Shepherd, Jane, Comp.; And Others – 1991
The National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) examines how students who have received financial aid, and their families, pay for postsecondary education. It includes nationally representative samples of undergraduates, graduates, and first-professional students, encompassing students attending less-than-2-year institutions, 2-year schools,…
Descriptors: Colleges, Federal Aid, Financial Aid Applicants, Graduate Students
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Perna, Laura Walter – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 1998
Examines the total direct and indirect effects of receiving financial aid on persistence to degree using a subsample of 1989 freshmen from the Beginning Postsecondary Student Survey. Analysis shows that although simply receiving financial aid is unrelated to persistence, the effects of financial aid on persistence appear to depend on type and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Dropout Research, Federal Programs, Financial Aid Applicants
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DeAngelis, Susan – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 1998
A study of graduate and professional student within-year persistence, based on the 1993 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, compared three models of the impact of financial aid on persistence. It was found that financial aid significantly and positively influenced within-year persistence, with comprehensive aid packages having the greatest…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Dropout Research, Federal Programs, Financial Aid Applicants
Lapovsky, Lucie – Business Officer, 1999
An annual National Association of College and University Business Officers study finds that institutional student aid is being used as a tool to help shape desired class demographics. An analysis of trends in tuition, net tuition, enrollment rates, net freshman revenue, and freshman student-aid rates is summarized here, and questions raised by the…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Admission, Educational Finance, Educational Trends
Henderson, Peter H.; Clarke, Julie E.; Woods, Cynthia – 1998
This 30th annual report summarizes results of the 1995-96 Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED), which collected data from graduates as they completed requirements for their doctoral degrees. The report notes the continued, but slowing, increase in research doctorates. Following an examination of general trends in the overall number of doctorates, the…
Descriptors: Citizenship, College Graduates, Doctoral Degrees, Educational Trends
Balfour, Linda F., Comp. – 1993
This abstract presents statistical data on higher education activities in North Carolina from simple counts of enrollment and degrees conferred to complex analyses of the flow of student transfers among institutions. Data for the abstract were assembled from information supplied by the colleges and universities for the 1992-93 academic year.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Housing, College Libraries, College Students
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Byce, Chuck; Schmitt, Carl – 1993
This report describes how undergraduates finance their postsecondary education by presenting data from the 1990 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study. The report discusses the characteristics of undergraduate students and where they attend school, as well as the costs of attendance, and the characteristics of the students who receive federal…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Financial Needs, Financial Support
Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 1996
This annual report on college affordability provides information pertinent to tuition and fee decision making designed to assist Illinois college and university governing boards in finding a balance between keeping college affordable for students and generating sufficient revenue to defray a portion of the cost of providing quality instruction.…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Change Agents, College Students, Community Colleges
Maryland State Higher Education Commission, Annapolis. – 1997
This report presents the types of financial support (grants, loans, scholarships and student employment) received by students at Maryland colleges and universities during the 1995-96 academic year. Data tables are organized in the following sections: undergraduate students by segment, graduate students by segment, community colleges, public…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Graduate Students
Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, Washington, DC. – 1997
This paper assesses the likely impact of proposed changes in the Office of Postsecondary Education's method of calculating parental base-year income on determining eligibility for student financial aid. In examining applicant data the study concludes that the change to use of prior, prior year (PPY) income is not a good proxy for the current prior…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Eligibility, Family Financial Resources
College Board, New York, NY. – 1997
This annual statistical survey provides profile and trend data on undergraduate and freshmen enrollment at the 3,177 two-year and four-year colleges and universities in the United States which responded to a College Board questionnaire. The report is arranged in two parts, with parallel sets of data tables. In Part 1, tables 1-23 present national…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Freshmen, College Graduates