Postsecondary Education

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Table A-48-2. Percentage of full-time graduate and first-professional students with aid and the average annual amount of aid for students receiving each type of aid, by type of aid, level, degree program, and institution control: Academic years 2003-04 and 2007-08

	Percent				Annual average (for full-time students with each type of aid, in constant 2009–10 dollars)
Characteristic	Any aid	Grants	Loans	Assistant-ships and other aid	Total aid	Grants	Loans	Assistant- ships and other aid
	2003–04
Master’s degree students
Total	80.5	40.3	56.9	25.9	$20,200	$8,200	$18,300	$9,700
Degree program
Business administration (M.B.A.)	76.4	39.9	57.6	16.2	21,900	7,500	21,700	‡
Education (any master’s)	70.7	25.7	59.1	12.6	17,800	7,500	16,300	‡
Any other master’s degree	84.1	44.1	56.2	31.8	20,300	8,500	17,900	10,100

Institution control
Public	78.2	43.0	45.8	37.2	17,700	7,600	14,900	10,200
Private not-for-profit	82.8	39.0	67.2	16.9	24,200	9,800	22,000	8,400

Doctoral degree students
Total	92.4	65.9	34.2	55.5	28,700	15,300	20,900	16,700
Degree program
Ph.D. (except in education)	95.4	74.4	21.1	68.3	29,400	17,000	15,100	18,000
Education (any doctorate)¹	79.7	51.0	34.8	41.8	20,400	11,500	14,700	12,600
Any other doctoral degree²	88.3	48.8	66.4	27.7	28,400	9,800	26,300	10,300

Institution control
Public	93.6	70.6	30.6	60.6	26,400	13,700	17,500	15,900
Private not-for-profit	90.6	60.3	38.3	49.7	32,600	18,000	25,400	18,000

First-professional degree students
Total	90.3	40.6	81.3	15.4	31,400	8,700	29,100	7,100
Degree program
Medicine (M.D.)	89.0	41.2	78.0	16.9	36,300	9,800	33,900	11,000
Other health science degree	92.3	40.8	84.0	17.2	30,500	5,600	29,500	6,100
Law (L.L.B. or J.D.)	91.1	39.1	84.3	13.7	29,800	9,900	26,900	5,200
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D.)	74.2	53.5	45.6	12.7	‡	‡	‡	‡

Institution control
Public	90.6	42.5	80.9	14.4	27,200	6,500	25,700	7,600
Private not-for-profit	90.1	38.9	81.6	16.3	34,900	10,800	32,100	6,800
	2007–08
Master’s degree students
Total	84.8	42.5	60.0	22.2	$22,800	$10,600	$21,000	$10,100
Degree program
Business administration (M.B.A.)	83.5	42.0	58.9	10.5	22,000	10,000	22,600	7,400
Education (any master’s)	83.1	35.2	66.2	15.7	19,200	8,200	17,500	9,500
Any other master’s degree	85.9	45.2	58.3	28.8	24,300	11,400	21,700	10,500

Institution control
Public	86.5	49.5	52.2	38.0	21,500	10,500	17,700	10,900
Private not-for-profit	81.9	42.1	60.8	16.3	25,500	10,900	24,600	8,200

Doctoral degree students
Total	93.0	59.7	35.3	57.1	28,900	15,400	23,600	16,400
Degree program
Ph.D. (except in education)	94.5	70.1	19.5	67.5	28,700	17,200	15,900	17,800
Education (any doctorate)¹	89.3	45.4	52.7	50.5	24,500	9,800	21,400	12,100
Any other doctoral degree²	90.4	39.3	67.4	34.7	30,300	9,600	29,000	11,800

Institution control
Public	92.0	64.5	28.0	67.4	27,100	14,100	16,600	16,600
Private not-for-profit	94.5	61.8	35.2	51.7	30,800	17,500	27,800	16,500

First-professional degree students
Total	88.1	40.3	81.2	14.8	36,300	9,000	33,700	6,400
Degree program
Medicine (M.D.)	83.7	33.2	77.2	14.8	38,100	8,100	36,400	7,400
Other health science degree	91.7	42.8	86.9	12.4	34,100	7,000	31,300	8,500
Law (L.L.B. or J.D.)	89.0	41.3	81.8	16.1	37,300	10,100	34,400	5,300
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D.)	87.3	68.3	67.6	10.0	20,100	10,200	‡	‡

Institution control
Public	88.1	42.1	81.1	14.4	31,400	7,100	28,900	8,800
Private not-for-profit	88.1	39.0	81.3	15.0	40,100	10,600	37,500	4,600
‡ Reporting standards not met.
¹ Ph.D. in education, Ed.D., or any other doctoral degree in which education is the field of study.
² Examples include D.B.A. (Doctor of Business Administration), D.F.A. (Doctor of Fine Arts), and D.P.A. (Doctor of Public Administration).
NOTE: Data presented are limited to full-time students who attended for the full year at only one institution to keep financial aid and price data comparable. "Other aid" includes aid that could not be characterized as federal, state, or institutional, such as employer aid, outside grants, and veteran's benefits. "Total" includes data for private for-profit institutions, which are not shown separately. Some data are revised from previously published figures. Data were adjusted to constant 2009–10 dollars using the Consumer Price Index For All Urban Consumers (CPI-U). for more information on the CPI-U, see supplemental note 10.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2003–04 and 2007–08 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:04 and NPSAS:08).

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