A recent compilation of educational indicators from 20 industrialized countries in North America, the Pacific, Europe, and Scandinavia shows rates and trends in college enrollment and graduation, education-related earning power for men and women, and public spending on education. Educational attainment rates are charted for the 20 nations. (MSE)

Data on college enrollment (men/women, full-time/part-time, four-year and two-year institutions, public and private), degrees awarded (associate, bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and first professional), and high school graduates (public and private) are projected for each year to 2005. (MSE)

Liberal-arts colleges dominate the list of institutions with the highest percentage of graduates who go on to earn Ph.D.'s. A study based on a comparison of the number of bachelor's degree recipients who earned Ph.D's between 1951 and 1980 is described. (MLW)

Data and projections include college enrollments (men, women, public, private, full-time, part-time, full-time-equivalent, four-year public and private institutions, two-year public and private institutions, undergraduate, graduate, and professional), degrees awarded (associate, bachelor's, master's, doctoral, first professional), and public and…

Dollar amounts of need-based and non-need-based state financial aid to students are tabulated for undergraduate and graduate and professional students for each state, including the number of awards and total and average award size in each category. (MSE)

Tables show most of the money that states will spend on student aid in 1984-85. Estimates are for dollars paid out, number of awards, and average award amount both for need-based assistance and non-need-based assistance for undergraduate, graduate, and professional categories. (MLW)

Need-based and nonneed-based state student aid for undergraduate, graduate, and professional education is tabulated by state, including information on the total dollars paid out, the percentage of change in the last year, the number of individual awards, and the dollar amount of the average award. (MSE)

Although over 56 percent of freshman athletes graduated within 5 years (compared to 48 percent of all students), basketball players had a graduation rate of only 39 percent and football players 47 percent. Tables detail findings at Division I colleges and compare public and private colleges. (DB)

For 1992-2003, data are presented on projected college enrollment (total, by gender, full- and part-time, 4-year institution, 2-year institution, undergraduate, graduate, and first-professional, both public and private); degrees awarded (associate, bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and first-professional, both public and private); and public and…

A table showing the results of the Survey of Earned Doctorates by the National Research Council is presented, with degree fields broken down by such variables as time to degree, sex, citizenship, marital status, planned postdoctoral study or employment. (MLW)

A new study detailing demographic shifts in the college-age population predicts growth in minority high school graduates and shrinkage or maintenance of White graduation rates. The report is the first to provide state-by-state figures on actual and projected graduates from 1986 through 1995 by racial and ethnic group. (MSE)

Presents data from the annual "Survey of Earned Doctorates" showing slightly increased numbers of doctoral degrees awarded in 1998, increased diversity in doctorate recipients, and declines in number of non-U.S. citizens earning doctorates. Tables and graphs show recipients by sex and ethnicity, characteristics of recipients by broad field,…

The 1984 state and national averages for high school graduates' scores on the American College Testing Program and Scholastic Aptitude Test college entrance examinations are presented, indicating also the change in the previous two years and the percentage of the state's graduates tested. (MSE)

A table that shows most of the money that states spend on student aid is presented. Need-based assistance and non-need-based assistance for both undergraduate and graduate and professional education are identified. (MLW)

A chart offers data on federal appropriations for education in the following areas: student assistance; graduate support; institutional aid; bilingual education; library resources; aid to disadvantaged; education for disabled; and miscellaneous programs. Data are for fiscal 1994 spending, fiscal 1995 presidential request, fiscal 1995 approved by…