Statistics in Brief publications present descriptive data in tabular formats to provide useful information to a broad audience, including members of the general public. They address simple and topical issues and questions. Using data from 2011-12, this Statistics in Brief updates and expands on a previous National Center for Education Statistics…

In 2011-12, graduate students received a total of $51.7 billion in federal loans and grants, institutional grants, employer support, and financial aid from other sources. In 2007-08, this figure was $36.7 billion (College Board 2008, 2012). The data presented in these Web Tables were collected through five administrations of the National…

A listing is given of student expenses at approximately 2,750 postsecondary institutions across the United States as reported by the institutions. Eighteen tables give data indicating average expenses for commuting students, self-supporting students, and resident students, both those living in campus housing and those in private housing. The…

Drawing primarily from a survey conducted by the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges in fall 1987, this report provides a statistical portrait of the country's community, junior, and technical colleges on a state-by-state and institution-by-institution basis. Part 1 presents data for individual colleges listed by state. For each…

Drawing primarily from a survey conducted by the American Association of Community Colleges in fall 1991, this two-part report provides a statistical portrait of the country's community, junior, and technical colleges on a state-by-state and institution-by-institution basis. The report details fall 1991 headcount enrollments, minority student…

The Institutional Characteristics machine-readable data file (MRDF) is a subfile of the larger Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS). It contains extensive descriptive information about more than 3,000 accredited institutions of higher education in the United States and its outlying territories. Each record includes the following…

The third edition of the Profiles Handbook presents information about postsecondary education in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Information about each state is organized into four main parts as follows: Part I contains a narrative description of the state-level coordinating or governing agency, institutional governing boards, master…

The National Longitudinal Study (NLS) of the High School Class of 1972 collected data on the attributes of students attending postsecondary institutions. The NLS also collected the names of any postsecondary institutions this cohort of students attended and/or applied to during the first two years after high school. In order to provide a link…