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Chart of the Week: Percentage of Students Taking Distance Education Courses
According to data published in the National Science Foundation’s Science and Engineering Indicators: 2012 report, 20.4% of all undergraduate students in post-secondary institutions took at least one...
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Chart of the Week: Real Growth in Average Faculty Salaries
Data published in the U.S. Department of Education's The Condition of Education 2011 show that average faculty salaries at all degree-granting post-secondary institutions grew, in real terms, by 24.6%...
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Chart of the Week: Gift Contributions to U.S. Colleges and Universities
In a press release issued yesterday, the Council for Aid to Education published survey data (of 1,009 institutions) on charitable giving to American colleges and universities during fiscal year 2011....
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Chart of the Week: Percentage of Public 4-Year Institutions with Differential...
There are a number of economic reasons which suggest that colleges and universities, rather than charging a single rate of tuition for all of its undergraduate students, should charge differential...
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Chart of the Week: Student Loan Borrowers by Age Group
Data published on Monday in a report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reveal that, as of 2011, the “outstanding student loan balance now stands at about $870 billion.” This debt is held by a...
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Chart of the Week: Federal Student Loans Outstanding
This week’s “chart of the week” comes courtesy of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR). As the CFR comments in its original post on this chart: With a pair of new laws in 2008 and 2010, Congress...
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Chart of the Week: Net Tuition Revenues and Educational Appropriations
About a year ago, one of our “charts of the week” focused upon the relationship between higher education appropriations and net tuition revenue at public institutions at the state level for the period...
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Chart of the Week: Financial Aid by Source and Type
According to data provided by the College Board (see, specifically, the link for “Figure 2″), total student financial aid total $237 billion in academic year 2011-12. As the chart below shows, however,...
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Chart of the Week: Commuters vs. On-campus Residents on Loans
UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) recently released its Freshman Survey, the 2012 Freshman Norms, which reports responses from just under 200,000 first-time, full-time students entering...
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Chart of the Week: Loan Delinquency Rates
According to data published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in the fourth quarter of 2012, delinquency rates on outstanding household debt fell overall (from 8.9 percent in the third quarter...
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Chart of the Week: Academic Costs vs Overhead Costs
In their paper, “Measuring Baumol and Bowen Effects in Public Research Universities,” Robert Martin and R. Carter Hill present cost data for public research universities in the United States. They...
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Chart of the Week: Private Share of Tertiary Education Spending
According to data (see Chart B3.3 here) published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the share of private expenditures on tertiary educational institutions for the...
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Chart of the Week: Percentage of Students Taking Distance Education Courses
According to data published in the National Science Foundation’s Science and Engineering Indicators: 2012 report, 20.4% of all undergraduate students in post-secondary institutions took at least one...
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Charts of the Week: Number of Hours College Students Work Per Week
The proportion of 16- to 24-year old full-time college students who were employed while enrolled in college was lower in 2009 than at any point in the previous decade, according to data published by...
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Charts of the Week: Student Aid by Income Level
The National Center for Education Statistics recently released a report on national trends in merit aid for undergraduates over the period 1995-96 to 2007-08. According to data in the report, while 13%...
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Fascinating! Other sources put the unemployment rate for recent grads at much higher than the 22.4% here — more like double that. For this reason, I recommend adding the unemployed to each occupation....
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