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| Table 211. | Number and percent of students enrolled in postsecondary institutions, by level, disability status and selected student characteristics: 1999-2000 |
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| | Graduate and
| Undergraduate | first-professional\1\
Selected student |_________________________________|__________________________________
characteristics | All | Disabled |Nondisabled| All | Disabled |Nondisabled
|students |students\2\| students |students |students\2\| students
_____________________________________|_________|___________|___________|_________|___________|____________
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
_____________________________________|_________|___________|___________|_________|___________|____________
Total (in thousands) ................| 16,538 | 1,508 | 15,030 | 2,658 | 161 | 2,497
|_________|___________|___________|_________|___________|____________
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Sex (percent) .......................| 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0
Male ..............................| 43.6 | 41.0 | 43.9 | 43.0 | 34.9 | 43.6
Female ............................| 56.4 | 59.0 | 56.1 | 57.0 | 65.1 | 56.4
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Race/ethnicity of student (percent) .| 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0
White, non-Hispanic ...............| 67.4 | 71.8 | 67.0 | 72.0 | 73.1 | 71.9
Black, non-Hispanic ...............| 12.0 | 11.0 | 12.1 | 8.4 | 12.0 | 8.1
Hispanic ..........................| 12.0 | 10.3 | 12.2 | 6.8 | 7.7 | 6.8
Asian/Pacific Islander ............| 5.8 | 3.3 | 6.0 | 10.5 | 4.3 | 10.9
American Indian/Alaska Native .....| 1.0 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 0.5
Other .............................| 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.7
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Age (percent) .......................| 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0
15 to 23 ..........................| 57.1 | 42.4 | 58.6 | 10.9 | 7.2 | 11.2
24 to 29 ..........................| 17.0 | 16.3 | 17.0 | 39.6 | 23.5 | 40.7
30 or older .......................| 25.9 | 41.4 | 24.4 | 49.4 | 69.3 | 48.2
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Attendance status (percent) .........| 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0
Full-time, full-year ..............| 40.3 | 33.5 | 41.0 | 35.8 | 31.4 | 36.0
Part-time or part-year ............| 59.7 | 66.5 | 59.0 | 64.2 | 68.6 | 64.0
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Student housing status (percent) ....| 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0
On-campus .........................| 15.1 | 11.3 | 15.5 | 7.2 | 3.9 | 7.4
Off-campus ........................| 58.9 | 66.6 | 58.2 | 87.0 | 90.9 | 86.7
With parents or relatives .........| 25.9 | 22.1 | 26.3 | 5.8 | 5.1 | 5.9
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Dependency status (percent) .........| 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0
Dependent .........................| 50.7 | 36.7 | 52.1 | ‡ | ‡| ‡
Independent, unmarried ............| 15.1 | 19.9 | 14.6 | 46.8 | 40.9 | 47.2
Independent, married ..............| 6.9 | 8.7 | 6.7 | 17.4 | 16.4 | 17.5
Independent with dependents .......| 27.4 | 34.8 | 26.6 | 35.7 | 42.7 | 35.3
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Veteran status (percent) ............| 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0
Veteran ...........................| 4.2 | 9.9 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 9.5 | 3.3
Not veteran .......................| 95.8 | 90.1 | 96.4 | 96.3 | 90.5 | 96.7
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Field of study (percent) ............| 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0
Business/management ...............| 17.8 | 15.7 | 18.0 | 17.7 | 11.7 | 18.0
Education .........................| 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 23.4 | 22.0 | 23.5
Engineering/computer science ......| 14.1 | 15.2 | 14.0 | 8.2 | 6.6 | 8.3
Health ............................| 9.6 | 8.3 | 9.7 | 14.2 | 10.8 | 14.4
Humanities ........................| 14.6 | 16.3 | 14.4 | 9.1 | 14.6 | 8.7
Law ...............................| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.8
Life/physical sciences ............| 5.8 | 4.8 | 5.9 | 5.9 | 5.8 | 5.9
Social/behavioral sciences ........| 8.5 | 10.0 | 8.3 | 7.8 | 11.5 | 7.6
Vocational/technical ..............| 5.3 | 5.0 | 5.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0
Undeclared ........................| 7.5 | 6.9 | 7.5 | 4.3 | 6.4 | 4.2
Other .............................| 8.9 | 9.8 | 8.8 | 4.7 | 6.1 | 4.6
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| ‡ Did not meet reporting standard.
\1\First-professional includes chiropractic medicine, medicine, dentistry, optometry, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, podiatry, and veterinary medicine. \2\Disabled students are those who reported that they had one or more of the following conditions: a specific learning disability, a visual handicap, hard of hearing, deafness, a speech disability, an orthopedic handicap, or a health impairment. NOTE: The estimates reported in this table are not directly comparable to previously reported data. Due to changes in 1999-2000 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) survey items, the percentage of students indicating some sort of disability is substantially higher than those indicating a disability in prior years, when a much shorter and different set of questions was asked. Detail may not sum to totals due to survey item nonresponse and rounding. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "The 1999-2000 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study." (This table was prepared June 2002.) |
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