Historical summary of faculty, students, degrees, and finances in degree-granting institutions: Selected years, 1869-70 to 2002-03

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Table 170.

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Selected characteristic         |    1869-7|    1879-80|     1889-90|    1899-1900|    1909-10 |    1919-20 |      1929-30|     1939-40 |      1949-50 |      1959-60 |      1969-70 |      1979-80 |       1989-90 |   1999-2000 |  2002-03
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1                               |        2 |         3 |          4 |           5 |          6 |          7 |           8 |           9 |           10 |           11 |           12 |           13 |            14 |          15 |       16
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Total institutions\1\ ..........|       563|        811|         998|          977|         951|       1,041|        1,409|        1,708|         1,851|         2,004|         2,525|         3,152|          3,535|        4,084|     4,168
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Total faculty\2\ ...............|\3\  5,553|\3\  11,522|\3\   15,809|       23,868|      36,480|      48,615|       82,386|      146,929|       246,722|       380,554|\4\    450,000|\4\    675,000|\5\     824,220|\5\ 1,027,830|      ---
  Males ........................|\3\  4,887|\3\   7,328|\3\   12,704|       19,151|      29,132|      35,807|       60,017|      106,328|       186,189|       296,773|\4\    346,000|\4\    479,000|\5\     577,298|\5\   602,469|      ---
  Females ......................|\3\    666|\3\   4,194|\3\    3,105|        4,717|       7,348|      12,808|       22,369|       40,601|        60,533|        83,781|\4\    104,000|\4\    196,000|\5\     246,922|\5\   425,361|      ---
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Total fall enrollment\6\ .......|\3\ 52,286|\3\ 115,817|\3\  156,756|      237,592|\3\  355,213|     597,880|    1,100,737|    1,494,203|     2,659,021|     3,639,847|     8,004,660|    11,569,899|     13,538,560|   14,791,224|16,611,711
  Males ........................|\3\ 41,160|\3\  77,972|\3\  100,453|      152,254|\3\  214,648|     314,938|      619,935|      893,250|     1,853,068|     2,332,617|     4,746,201|     5,682,877|      6,190,015|    6,490,646| 7,202,116
  Females ......................|\3\ 11,126|\3\  37,845|\3\   56,303|       85,338|\3\  140,565|     282,942|      480,802|      600,953|       805,953|     1,307,230|     3,258,459|     5,887,022|      7,348,545|    8,300,578| 9,409,595
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Earned degrees conferred        |          |           |            |             |            |            |             |             |              |              |              |              |               |             |
                                |          |           |            |             |            |            |             |             |              |              |              |              |               |             |
Associate's, total .............|       ---|       --- |        --- |         --- |        --- |          --|          ---|         --- |          --- |          --- |       206,023|       400,910|        455,102|      564,933|   632,912
  Males ........................|       ---|       --- |        --- |         --- |        --- |          --|          ---|         --- |          --- |          --- |       117,432|       183,737|        191,195|      224,721|   253,060
  Females ......................|       ---|       --- |        --- |         --- |        --- |          --|          ---|         --- |          --- |          --- |        88,591|       217,173|        263,907|      340,212|   379,852
                                |          |           |            |             |            |            |             |             |              |              |              |              |               |             |
Bachelor's, total\7\ ...........|     9,371|     12,896|      15,539|       27,410|      37,199|      48,622|      122,484|      186,500|       432,058|       392,440|       792,316|       929,417|      1,051,344|    1,237,875| 1,348,503
  Males ........................|     7,993|     10,411|      12,857|       22,173|      28,762|      31,980|       73,615|      109,546|       328,841|       254,063|       451,097|       473,611|        491,696|      530,367|   573,079
  Females ......................|     1,378|      2,485|       2,682|        5,237|       8,437|      16,642|       48,869|       76,954|       103,217|       138,377|       341,219|       455,806|        559,648|      707,508|   775,424
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Master's, total\8\ .............|         0|        879|       1,015|        1,583|       2,113|       4,279|       14,969|       26,731|        58,183|        74,435|       208,291|       298,081|        324,301|      457,056|   512,645
  Males ........................|         0|        868|         821|        1,280|       1,555|       2,985|        8,925|       16,508|        41,220|        50,898|       125,624|       150,749|        153,653|      191,792|   211,381
  Females ......................|         0|         11|         194|          303|         558|       1,294|        6,044|       10,223|        16,963|        23,537|        82,667|       147,332|        170,648|      265,264|   301,264
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First-professional, total\7\ ...|       ---|       --- |        --- |         --- |        --- |          --|          ---|         --- |          --- |          --- |        34,918|        70,131|         70,988|       80,057|    80,810
  Males ........................|       ---|       --- |        --- |         --- |        --- |          --|          ---|         --- |          --- |          --- |        33,077|        52,716|         43,961|       44,239|    41,834
  Females ......................|       ---|       --- |        --- |         --- |        --- |          --|          ---|         --- |          --- |          --- |         1,841|        17,415|         27,027|       35,818|    38,976
                                |          |           |            |             |            |            |             |             |              |              |              |              |               |             |
Doctor's, total ................|         1|         54|         149|          382|         443|         615|        2,299|        3,290|         6,420|         9,829|        29,866|        32,615|         38,371|       44,808|    46,024
  Males ........................|         1|         51|         147|          359|         399|         522|        1,946|        2,861|         5,804|         8,801|        25,890|        22,943|         24,401|       25,028|    24,341
  Females ......................|         0|          3|           2|           23|          44|          93|          353|          429|           616|         1,028|         3,976|         9,672|         13,970|       19,780|    21,683
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Finances, in thousands          |          |           |            |             |            |            |             |             |              |              |              |              |               |             |
                                |          |           |            |             |            |            |             |             |              |              |              |              |               |             |
Current-fund revenue ...........|      --- |       --- |        --- |         --- |     $76,883|    $199,922|     $554,511|     $715,211|    $2,374,645|    $5,785,537|   $21,515,242|   $58,519,982|   $139,635,477|         --- |      ---
Educational and general         |          |           |            |             |            |            |             |             |              |              |              |              |               |             |
   income ......................|      --- |       --- |     $21,464|      $35,084|      67,917|     172,929|      483,065|      571,288|     1,833,845|     4,688,352|    16,486,177|          --- |           --- |         --- |      ---
Current-fund expenditures ......|      --- |       --- |        --- |         --- |        --- |          --|      507,142|      674,688|     2,245,661|     5,601,376|    21,043,113|    56,913,588|    134,655,571|         --- |      ---
Educational and general         |          |           |            |             |            |            |             |             |              |              |              |              |               |             |
   expenditures ................|      --- |       --- |        --- |         --- |        --- |          --|      377,903|      521,990|     1,706,444|     4,685,258|    16,845,212|    44,542,843|    105,585,076|         --- |      ---
Value of physical property .....|      --- |       --- |      95,426|      253,599|     457,594|     747,333|    2,065,049|\9\ 2,753,780|     4,799,964|    13,548,548|    42,093,580|    83,733,387|    164,635,000|         --- |      ---
Market value of endowment       |          |           |            |             |            |            |             |             |              |              |              |              |               |             |
   funds .......................|      --- |       --- |\10\  78,788|\10\  194,998|\10\ 323,661|\10\ 569,071|\10\1,372,068|\10\1,686,283|\10\ 2,601,223|\10\ 5,322,080|    11,206,632|    20,743,045|     67,978,726|         --- |      ---
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\1\Prior to 1979-80, excludes branch campuses.
\2\Total number of different individuals (not reduced to full-time equivalent). Beginning in 1959-60, data are for the first term of the academic year. Beginning in 1969-70, data include only instructional faculty with the rank of instructor or above.
\3\Estimated.
\4\Estimated number of senior instructional staff. Excludes graduate assistants.
\5\Because of revised survey procedures, data may not be directly comparable with figures prior to 1989-90.
\6\Data for 1869-70 to 1949-50 are for resident degree-credit students who enrolled at any time during the academic year.
\7\From 1869-70 to 1959-60, first-professional degrees are included under bachelor's degrees.
\8\Figures for years prior to 1969-70 are not precisely comparable with later data.
\9\Includes unexpended plant funds.
\10\Book value. Includes other nonexpendable funds.

NOTE: Data for 1869-70 to 1989-90 are for institutions of higher education. Institutions of higher education were accredited by an agency or association that was recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, or recognized directly by the Secretary of Education. The new degree-granting classification is very similar to the earlier higher education classification, except that it includes some additional institutions, primarily 2-year colleges, and excludes a few higher education institutions that did not award associate's or higher degrees. Counts of institutions on this table may be lower than reported on other tables, because counts on this table include only institutions reporting separate enrollment data. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. (See Guide to Sources for details.)

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Biennial Survey of Education in the United States; Education Directory, Colleges and Universities; Faculty and Other Professional Staff in Institutions of Higher Education; Fall Enrollment in Colleges and Universities; Earned Degrees Conferred; Financial Statistics of Institutions of Higher Education; and Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), "Fall Enrollment in Institutions of Higher Education," "Degrees and Other Formal Awards Conferred," and "Financial Statistics of Institutions of Higher Education" surveys; and 1989 through 2003 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, "Fall Enrollment Survey" (IPEDS-EF:89-99), "Fall Staff Survey" (IPEDS-S:89-99), "Finance Survey" (IPEDS-FY:90-00), "Completions Survey" (IPEDS-C:90-00), "Institutional Characteristics Survey" (IPEDS-IC:89-99),and Spring 2003 and Fall 2003. (This table was prepared December 2004.)

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