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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 2007-08
  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 4,861 654 1,547 490 1,132 181 857
Distance learning opportunities 2,881 581 730 362 1,049 31 128
ROTC (any) 981 396 480 10 91 4 0
Army 885 366 435 7 73 4 0
Navy 159 71 79 1 7 1 0
Air Force 566 229 282 5 48 2 0
Study abroad 1,818 512 946 60 287 6 7
Weekend college 1,848 231 501 264 565 44 243
Teacher certification 1,587 506 868 8 179 1 25
None of the above 1,000 15 223 66 63 115 518
Did not respond 12 2 3 1 2 2 2
Percentage of institutions
   All institutions 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Distance learning opportunities 59.3 88.8 47.2 73.9 92.7 17.1 14.9
ROTC (any) 20.2 60.6 31.0 2.0 8.0 2.2 0.0
Army 18.2 56.0 28.1 1.4 6.4 2.2 0.0
Navy 3.3 10.9 5.1 0.2 0.6 0.6 0.0
Air Force 11.6 35.0 18.2 1.0 4.2 1.1 0.0
Study abroad 37.4 78.3 61.2 12.2 25.4 3.3 0.8
Weekend college 38.0 35.3 32.4 53.9 49.9 24.3 28.4
Teacher certification 32.6 77.4 56.1 1.6 15.8 0.6 2.9
None of the above 20.6 2.3 14.4 13.5 5.6 63.5 60.4
Did not respond 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 1.1 0.2

NOTE: Detail within columns does 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 2007, Institutional Characteristics component.