Table 32-1. Total number of institutions that offered distance education courses, total number of enrollments in all distance education courses, and the number of enrollments in college-level, credit-granting distance education courses, by level and type of institution: 1997–98 and 2000–01
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Number of enrollments in college-level,
credit-granting distance education courses
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| Type of institution |
Total
number of
institutions |
Number of
institutions
offering
distance
education
courses |
Total number of
of enrollments
in all distance
education
courses |
Undergraduate
and graduate
levels |
Undergraduate
courses |
Graduate/first-
professional
courses |
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1997–98 |
| All institutions |
5,010 |
1,680 |
1,661,000 |
1,364,000 |
1,082,000 |
281,000 |
| Public 2-year |
1,230 |
760 |
714,000 |
691,000 |
691,000 |
‡ |
| Public 4-year |
610 |
480 |
711,000 |
453,000 |
290,000 |
163,000 |
| Private 4-year |
2,050 |
390 |
222,000 |
209,000 |
91,000 |
118,000 |
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2000–01 |
| All institutions |
4,130 |
2,320 |
3,077,000 |
2,876,000 |
2,350,000 |
510,000 |
| Public 2-year |
1,070 |
960 |
1,472,000 |
1,436,000 |
1,435,000 |
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| Public 4-year |
620 |
550 |
945,000 |
888,000 |
566,000 |
308,000 |
| Private 4-year |
1,800 |
710 |
589,000 |
480,000 |
278,000 |
202,000 |
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‡Reporting standards not met (too few cases).
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NOTE: The sample for the 1997–98 survey consisted of 2- and 4-year postsecondary institutions (both higher education and postsecondary institutions) in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The 2000–01 survey consisted of 2- and 4-year Title IV-eligible, degree-granting institutions in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The change was made because NCES shifted the way in which it categorizes postsecondary institutions. Data for private 2-year institutions are not reported in a separate category because too few private 2-year institutions in the sample offered distance education courses to make reliable estimates. Data for private 2-year institutions are included in the totals. Enrollments may include duplicated counts of students because institutions were instructed to count a student enrolled in multiple courses for each course in which that student was enrolled. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding, missing data, or because too few cases were reported for a reliable estimate for private 2-year institutions.
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SOURCE: Lewis, L., Snow, K., Farris, E., and Levin, D. (1999). Distance Education at Postsecondary Education Institutions: 1997–98 (NCES 2000–013), table 5; and Waits, T., and Lewis, L. (2003). Distance Education at Degree-Granting Postsecondary Institutions: 2000–2001 (NCES 2003–017), table 4. 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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