| In 2-year institution1 |
In 4-year institution |
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| Plans and expectations | Public | Private for-profit |
Public | Private not- for-profit |
Private for-profit |
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| Total | 29.8 | 1.4 | 45.0 | 20.5 | 1.5 | |
| Post-high school educational plans | ||||||
| Plan to get postsecondary education | 29.1 | 1.4 | 45.5 | 20.8 | 1.5 | |
| Vocational, technical, or trade school | 45.1 | 20.8 | 7.2 | 2.8 | 7.9 | |
| 2-year community college | 84.8 | 1.7 | 6.5 | 2.1 | 2.2 | |
| 4-year college or university | 16.2 | 0.4 | 55.8 | 25.8 | 1.1 | |
| Don’t plan to continue | 76.9 | ‡ | # | ‡ | # | |
| Don’t know or unspecified plans | 65.4 | 2.4! | 19.5 | 3.0 | ‡ | |
| Highest educational attainment expected in 2004 (when in 12th-grade) | ||||||
| Don’t know | 56.9 | 3.4 | 24.6 | 10.6 | 1.9! | |
| High school diploma or less | 63.8 | ‡ | 14.2 | # | # | |
| Attend or complete 2-year college | 69.7 | 9.2 | 6.4 | 3.2 | 4.0 | |
| Attend or complete 4-year college | 32.3 | 0.9 | 46.1 | 17.5 | 1.8 | |
| Obtain graduate degree | 16.9 | 0.2! | 53.9 | 27.7 | 0.8 | |
| Highest educational attainment expected 2 years later (2006) | ||||||
| Don’t know | 51.4 | 3.9! | 23.7 | 13.8 | 2.5! | |
| Attend or complete 2-year college | 63.1 | 7.5 | 15.2 | 4.0 | 4.4 | |
| Attend or complete 4-year college | 34.1 | 1.2 | 45.4 | 15.9 | 1.6 | |
| Obtain graduate degree | 18.4 | 0.2! | 52.3 | 27.7 | 0.8 | |
| # Rounds to zero. |
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| ! Interpret data with caution (estimates are unstable). |
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| ‡ Reporting standards not met (sample size too small or standard error greater than estimate). |
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| 1 Private not-for-profit 2-year institutions are not shown separately. |
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| NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. |
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| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002), “Second Follow-up, 2006.” |
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