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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 2008-09
  Total 4-year 2-year
    Public Private Public Private
Special learning opportunities     Not-for-profit For-profit   Not-for-profit For-profit
Number of institutions
   All institutions 4,937 653 1,551 530 1,127 183 893
Distance learning opportunities 2,986 584 763 405 1,051 36 147
ROTC (any) 1,017 407 501 13 93 3 0
  Army 918 374 453 10 78 3 0
  Navy 163 73 81 2 7 0 0
  Air Force 587 237 293 6 50 1 0
Study abroad 1,869 518 957 86 294 5 9
Weekend college 2,046 235 549 312 600 45 305
Teacher certification 1,609 510 873 21 183 1 21
None of the above 964 14 211 57 61 117 504
Did not respond 5 0 3 0 1 1 0
Percent of institutions
   All institutions 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Distance learning opportunities 60.5 89.4 49.2 76.4 93.3 19.7 16.5
ROTC (any) 20.6 62.3 32.3 2.5 8.3 1.6 0.0
  Army 18.6 57.3 29.2 1.9 6.9 1.6 0.0
  Navy 3.3 11.2 5.2 0.4 0.6 0.0 0.0
  Air Force 11.9 36.3 18.9 1.1 4.4 0.5 0.0
Study abroad 37.9 79.3 61.7 16.2 26.1 2.7 1.0
Weekend college 41.4 36.0 35.4 58.9 53.2 24.6 34.2
Teacher certification 32.6 78.1 56.3 4.0 16.2 0.5 2.4
None of the above 19.5 2.1 13.6 10.8 5.4 63.9 56.4
Did not respond 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.5 0.0

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 2008, Institutional Characteristics component.