National Center for Education Statistics

Title IV degree-granting institutions offering special learning opportunities, by level and control of institution: United States, academic year 2002-03
		4 years and above			At least 2 but less than 4 years
			Private			Private
Special learning opportunities	Total	Public	Not-for- profit	For- profit	Public	Not-for- profit	For- profit
	Number of institutions
All institutions	4,168	631	1,538	297	1,081	127	494
Accelerated programs	1,186	269	502	73	283	14	45
Cooperative (work-study) program	1,691	368	404	84	722	27	86
Distance learning opportunities	2,353	541	569	162	991	23	67
Dual enrollment	1,897	388	538	20	903	28	20
ROTC (any)	938	382	454	9	87	6	0
Army	831	343	405	5	72	6	0
Navy	157	72	77	0	8	0	0
Air Force	526	218	255	5	45	3	0
Study abroad	1,568	444	865	21	227	9	2
Weekend college	793	126	230	105	293	12	27
Teacher certification	1,335	451	806	2	74	1	1
None of the above	700	19	227	83	7	55	309
Did not respond	54	1	23	6	9	4	11
	Percent of institutions
All institutions	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Accelerated programs	28.5	42.6	32.6	24.6	26.2	11.0	9.1
Cooperative (work-study) program	40.6	58.3	26.3	28.3	66.8	21.3	17.4
Distance learning opportunities	56.5	85.7	37.0	54.5	91.7	18.1	13.6
Dual enrollment	45.5	61.5	35.0	6.7	83.5	22.0	4.0
ROTC (any)	22.5	60.5	29.5	3.0	8.0	4.7	0.0
Army	19.9	54.4	26.3	1.7	6.7	4.7	0.0
Navy	3.8	11.4	5.0	0.0	0.7	0.0	0.0
Air Force	12.6	34.5	16.6	1.7	4.2	2.4	0.0
Study abroad	37.6	70.4	56.2	7.1	21.0	7.1	0.4
Weekend college	19.0	20.0	15.0	35.4	27.1	9.4	5.5
Teacher certification	32.0	71.5	52.4	0.7	6.8	0.8	0.2
None of the above	16.8	3.0	14.8	27.9	0.6	43.3	62.6
Did not respond	1.3	0.2	1.5	2.0	0.8	3.1	2.2

NOTE: Details within columns do not sum to totals because institutions may offer more than one special learning opportunity to students.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2002.