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Digest of Education Statistics: 2012
Digest of Education Statistics: 2012

NCES 2014-015
December 2013


Table 417. Total expenditures of private for-profit degree-granting institutions, by purpose and classification of institution: 2010-11
Classification of institution Total Instruc-
tion
Research
and public
service
Student services,
academic and
institutional support
Auxil-
iary enter-
prises1
Net grant
aid to stu-
dents2
Other
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  In thousands of current dollars
Total $22,585,686 $5,656,557 $19,327 $14,851,333 $486,343 $87,947 $1,484,179
4-year 17,139,103 3,925,914 15,582 12,033,229 343,230 75,599 745,548
Doctoral/research3 3,363,792 567,883 2,855 2,751,632 4,469 0 36,953
Master's4 4,832,091 1,172,736 591 3,364,201 68,339 27,096 199,128
Baccalaureate5 2,095,640 669,207 4,542 1,263,963 38,335 4,370 115,223
Special-focus institutions6 6,847,581 1,516,089 7,595 4,653,433 232,087 44,133 394,244
Art, music, or design 2,295,909 541,187 3,882 1,464,700 158,007 124 128,008
Business and management 2,271,761 430,309 631 1,688,415 38,584 34,439 79,382
Engineering or technology 1,506,434 341,325 3 1,115,270 13,301 1,804 34,731
Law 146,013 37,607 1,205 59,205 241 7,192 40,564
Medical or other health 452,333 123,619 677 279,543 2,751 574 45,170
Other special focus 175,130 42,041 1,196 46,301 19,204 0 66,388
2-year 5,446,582 1,730,642 3,744 2,818,104 143,113 12,347 738,631
  Percentage distribution
Total 100.00 25.04 0.09 65.76 2.15 0.39 6.57
4-year 100.00 22.91 0.09 70.21 2.00 0.44 4.35
Doctoral/research3 100.00 16.88 0.08 81.80 0.13 0.00 1.10
Master's4 100.00 24.27 0.01 69.62 1.41 0.56 4.12
Baccalaureate5 100.00 31.93 0.22 60.31 1.83 0.21 5.50
Special-focus institutions6 100.00 22.14 0.11 67.96 3.39 0.64 5.76
Art, music, or design 100.00 23.57 0.17 63.80 6.88 0.01 5.58
Business and management 100.00 18.94 0.03 74.32 1.70 1.52 3.49
Engineering or technology 100.00 22.66 0.00 74.03 0.88 0.12 2.31
Law 100.00 25.76 0.83 40.55 0.16 4.93 27.78
Medical or other health 100.00 27.33 0.15 61.80 0.61 0.13 9.99
Other special focus 100.00 24.01 0.68 26.44 10.97 0.00 37.91
2-year 100.00 31.77 0.07 51.74 2.63 0.23 13.56
  Expenditure per full-time-equivalent student in current dollars
Total $13,709 $3,433 $12 $9,014 $295 $53 $901
4-year 13,665 3,130 12 9,594 274 60 594
Doctoral/research3 8,868 1,497 8 7,254 12 0 97
Master's4 12,502 3,034 2 8,704 177 70 515
Baccalaureate5 15,847 5,061 34 9,558 290 33 871
Special-focus institutions6 19,228 4,257 21 13,067 652 124 1,107
Art, music, or design 22,866 5,390 39 14,588 1,574 1 1,275
Business and management 16,752 3,173 5 12,451 285 254 585
Engineering or technology 17,139 3,883 0 12,689 151 21 395
Law 30,896 7,957 255 12,527 51 1,522 8,583
Medical or other health 21,263 5,811 32 13,141 129 27 2,123
Other special focus 28,165 6,761 192 7,446 3,088 0 10,677
2-year 13,849 4,400 10 7,165 364 31 1,878
1 Essentially self-supporting operations of institutions that furnish a service to students, faculty, or staff, such as residence halls and food services.
2 Excludes tuition, fee, and auxiliary enterprise allowances and agency transactions, such as student awards made from contributed funds or grant funds.
3 Includes institutions that award at least 20 doctor's degrees per year, but did not have high levels of research activity.
4 Master's institutions award at least 50 master's degrees per year.
5 Baccalaureate institutions primarily emphasize undergraduate education. Also includes institutions classified as 4-year under the IPEDS system, which had been classified as 2-year in the Carnegie classification system because they primarily award associate's degrees.
6 Special focus 4-year institutions award degrees primarily in single fields of study, such as medicine, business, fine arts, theology, and engineering.
NOTE: Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Further information on the Carnegie 2005 classification system used in this table may be obtained from http://classifications.carnegiefoundation.org/resources/. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2011, Enrollment component; and Spring 2012, Finance component. (This table was prepared November 2012.)