The Latino population in the United States has grown significantly over the last decade, and Latina representation has grown more quickly than that of Latinos. Expanding Latina representation in postsecondary programs is critical to meeting the nation's future workforce and civic leadership needs. This fact sheet provides an overview of the Latina…

While Latino enrollment decreased in 2020, we continue to see an increase in Latino college completion. This brief provides an overview of past and current context of Latino college completion through the first months of the pandemic, including the top institutions where Latinos earn degrees, and progress towards the goal of Ensuring America's…

In response to research raising concerns about developmental placement, new placement systems and curricular models designed to increase the number of students placed into entry-level college courses have emerged in recent years. These systems aim to more accurately identify students who may benefit from some type of developmental instruction and…

Washington's community and technical colleges (CTCs) play an important role in producing baccalaureate degree graduates in the state through the applied baccalaureate (AB) degree. The key policy goals of the AB degree in Washington state are to increase educational attainment for students and meet employer demand. Compared to the traditional…

"Projections of Education Statistics to 2022" is the 41st report in a series begun in 1964. It includes statistics on elementary and secondary schools and postsecondary degree-granting institutions. This report provides revisions of projections shown in "Projections of Education Statistics to 2021" and projections of…

Widespread concern about the high and rising price of college makes timely data on tuition increases in historical context particularly important. The increase in average published tuition and fees at public four-year colleges and universities for the 2012-13 academic year is smaller than it has been in recent years--and below the average growth…

The overall trend, particularly in associate degrees and diploma programs, is falling admissions. In baccalaureate and higher degree programs, there has been a slight shift in fall admissions from publicly supported institutions to privately supported institutions. Declining enrollments will bring about increasing destabilization of nursing…

This report covers the headcount enrollment and degrees granted from the State University of New York. The enrollment figures are taken from the fall semester enrollment survey. Degrees granted include all degrees granted over a 12-month period, July 1-June 30. The figures present a profile of enrollment and degrees granted for the State…

A series of data tables and graphs provides a longitudinal summary of information about the students at Los Angeles City College who earned an Associate of Arts degree (AA) from 1964 through 1980. The first table offers information about selected student characteristics, including number of graduates, percent of total enrollment who graduated,…

The Houston Community College (HCC) 2011-2012 Fact Book provides statistical information about the college district. It is important for the reader to be aware that data presented in this publication may differ slightly from statistics found in other district reports. Such variances may result from differences methodology including the source of…

Newly graduating engineers and technicians of the class of 1974 enjoyed the best job prospects since 1970, according to data compiled by the Engineering Manpower Commission from a survey of the nation's engineering and technical schools. The pattern of persons seeking employment and those seeking further study seem to have been changing gradually…

Presenting background information on the transfer rate at Florida's Pensacola Junior College (PJC), the seven tables in this report provide data on trends and graduation rates from 1990 to 1996 for first-time-in-college (FTIC) students. The first table examines graduation rates for first-time-at-PJC students, FTIC students, FTIC Associate in Arts…

A study was conducted at Gainesville College (GC) in Georgia to investigate the enrollment patterns, retention rates, and graduation rates of black students. Depending on the data element, the period of time covered extended from the late 1980's to winter 1995. In some cases, comparisons were drawn with other units of the University System of…

Types of degrees offered by Arkansas colleges and universities are described, and information on degrees conferred and output trends are examined. Data are presented from 1972-73 through 1979-80. In this time period, public institutions had overall increases of 15.3 percent in the number of degrees awarded, with the greater percentage of increase…

This 25th annual study of application and enrollment patterns of transfer students within the State University of New York (SUNY) system during Fall 1994 was conducted in response to the demand for information on the inter-campus mobility of students attending SUNY institutions. The study used an analysis of the higher education backgrounds of…