National Center for Education Statistics

Title IV 4-year and 2-year institutions offering special learning opportunities, by level and control of institution: United States, academic year 2004-05
		4-year			2-year
			Private			Private
Special learning opportunities	Total	Public	Not-for-profit	For-profit	Public	Not-for-profit	For-profit
	Number of institutions
All institutions	4,714	640	1,543	370	1,143	225	793
Accelerated programs	1,347	294	564	98	318	25	48
Cooperative (work-study) program	1,802	395	415	93	776	27	96
Distance learning opportunities	2,573	557	619	253	1,015	27	102
Dual enrollment	2,109	441	610	30	964	32	32
ROTC (any)	936	385	450	12	84	5	0
Army	833	350	402	8	68	5	0
Navy	156	70	79	0	7	0	0
Air Force	536	222	264	6	42	2	0
Study abroad	1,664	471	899	29	251	7	7
Weekend college	777	134	217	61	309	17	39
Teacher certification	1,472	478	848	4	120	1	21
None of the above	1,020	19	234	54	32	135	546
Did not respond	14	0	0	2	3	3	6
	Percent of institutions
All institutions	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Accelerated programs	28.6	45.9	36.6	26.5	27.8	11.1	6.1
Cooperative (work-study) program	38.2	61.7	26.9	25.1	67.9	12.0	12.1
Distance learning opportunities	54.6	87.0	40.1	68.4	88.8	12.0	12.9
Dual enrollment	44.7	68.9	39.5	8.1	84.3	14.2	4.0
ROTC (any)	19.9	60.2	29.2	3.2	7.3	2.2	0.0
Army	17.7	54.7	26.1	2.2	5.9	2.2	0.0
Navy	3.3	10.9	5.1	0.0	0.6	0.0	0.0
Air Force	11.4	34.7	17.1	1.6	3.7	0.9	0.0
Study abroad	35.3	73.6	58.3	7.8	22.0	3.1	0.9
Weekend college	16.5	20.9	14.1	16.5	27.0	7.6	4.9
Teacher certification	31.2	74.7	55.0	1.1	10.5	0.4	2.6
None of the above	21.6	3.0	15.2	14.6	2.8	60.0	68.9
Did not respond	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.3	1.3	0.8

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 2004.