The data in this report were compiled as part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program being conducted by the Office of Research of the American Council on Education to assess the impact of different types of college environments on students' development, and to provide up-to-date source of data about the population of US college…

National normative data on the characteristics of students entering colleges as first-time, full-time freshmen in 1969 are presented in this annual report, the fourth in a series developed as part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program being conducted by the Office of Research of the American Council on Education. The program's major…

For this normative survey of graduate students, questionnaires were sent to 51,429 students at 158 sample institutions that have graduate programs in academic and technical areas that lead primarily to master's and doctoral degrees. Sixty-six percent or 33,511 returned usable forms. For this survey 3 types of weights were developed: (1) a…