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| Title IV 4-year and 2-year institutions offering special learning opportunities, by level and control of institution: United States, academic year 2005-06 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 4,781 | 639 | 1,547 | 407 | 1,153 | 219 | 816 |
| Distance learning opportunities | 2,673 | 557 | 646 | 286 | 1,050 | 33 | 101 |
| ROTC (any) | 942 | 386 | 457 | 11 | 83 | 5 | 0 |
| Army | 842 | 355 | 409 | 7 | 66 | 5 | 0 |
| Navy | 157 | 70 | 80 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Air Force | 545 | 219 | 275 | 6 | 43 | 2 | 0 |
| Study abroad | 1,713 | 480 | 911 | 43 | 266 | 7 | 6 |
| Weekend college | 1,221 | 180 | 349 | 117 | 431 | 31 | 113 |
| Teacher certification | 1,504 | 484 | 859 | 6 | 130 | 1 | 24 |
| None of the above | 1,173 | 20 | 255 | 79 | 74 | 151 | 594 |
| Did not respond | 61 | 2 | 17 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 17 |
| Percent of institutions | |||||||
| All institutions | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| Distance learning opportunities | 55.9 | 87.2 | 41.8 | 70.3 | 91.1 | 15.1 | 12.4 |
| ROTC (any) | 19.7 | 60.4 | 29.5 | 2.7 | 7.2 | 2.3 | 0.0 |
| Army | 17.6 | 55.6 | 26.4 | 1.7 | 5.7 | 2.3 | 0.0 |
| Navy | 3.3 | 11.0 | 5.2 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Air Force | 11.4 | 34.3 | 17.8 | 1.5 | 3.7 | 0.9 | 0.0 |
| Study abroad | 35.8 | 75.1 | 58.9 | 10.6 | 23.1 | 3.2 | 0.7 |
| Weekend college | 25.5 | 28.2 | 22.6 | 28.7 | 37.4 | 14.2 | 13.8 |
| Teacher certification | 31.5 | 75.7 | 55.5 | 1.5 | 11.3 | 0.5 | 2.9 |
| None of the above | 24.5 | 3.1 | 16.5 | 19.4 | 6.4 | 68.9 | 72.8 |
| Did not respond | 1.3 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 3.2 | 2.1 |
NOTE: Detail within columns does not sum to totals because institutions may offer more than one special learning opportunity to students. Due to natural disaster, 22 institutions were unable to respond to this survey; their data were not imputed, and they are not represented in this table.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2005, Institutional Characteristics component.