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Distance Education at Postsecondary Institutions
Table S32.  Standard errors for the percentage of 2-year and 4-year postsecondary institutions offering distance education courses or planning to offer them within the next 3 years of the survey and total course enrollments, by type of institution: 1997–98 and 2000–01

Type of institution Offered
distance education
Planned to offer distance
education within the next
3 years of the survey

Total course enrollments
in distance education

  1997–98
  All institutions 1.0 1.5 92,400
Public 2-year 2.5 1.7 33,700
Public 4-year 1.8 1.5 71,500
Private 4-year 1.5 2.7 33,500
  2000–01
  All institutions 1.2 0.7 60,200
Public 2-year 2.0 1.2 32,600
Public 4-year 1.9 0.9 25,000
Private 4-year 2.2 1.7 46,400

SOURCE: Lewis, L., Snow, K., Farris, E., and Levin, D. (1999). Distance Education at Postsecondary Education Institutions: 1997–98 (NCES 2000–013), tables 2a and 5a; and Waits, T., and Lewis, L. (2003). Distance Education at Degree-Granting Postsecondary Institutions: 2000–2001 (NCES 2003–017), tables 1a and 4a. Data from U.S. Department of Education, NCES, Postsecondary Education Quick Information System (PEQIS), “Survey on Distance Education at Postsecondary Education Institutions,” 1998–99 and “Survey on Distance Education at Higher Education Institutions,” 2000–01.

 

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