(34KB)| Table 215. | Number and percentage of students enrolled in postsecondary institutions, by level, disability status, and selected student characteristics: 2003–04 |
| Selected student characteristic | Undergraduate | Graduate and first-professional1 | ||||||||||
| All students | Students with disabilities2 | Nondisabled students | All students | Students with disabilities2 | Nondisabled students | |||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||||
| Number of students (in thousands) | 19,054 | (0.0) | 2,156 | (36.7) | 16,897 | (36.7) | 2,826 | (19.9) | 189 | (14.0) | 2,637 | (21.1) |
| Sex (percent) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) |
| Male | 42.4 | (0.39) | 42.1 | (0.84) | 42.4 | (0.39) | 41.9 | (1.23) | 38.0 | (3.50) | 42.2 | (1.29) |
| Female | 57.6 | (0.39) | 57.9 | (0.84) | 57.6 | (0.39) | 58.1 | (1.23) | 62.0 | (3.50) | 57.8 | (1.29) |
| Race/ethnicity of student (percent) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) |
| White | 63.1 | (0.76) | 65.1 | (0.99) | 62.9 | (0.76) | 68.3 | (1.05) | 67.0 | (3.39) | 68.4 | (1.09) |
| Black | 14.0 | (0.62) | 13.2 | (0.78) | 14.1 | (0.62) | 9.6 | (0.68) | 12.5 | (2.99) | 9.3 | (0.69) |
| Hispanic | 12.7 | (0.43) | 12.3 | (0.62) | 12.8 | (0.44) | 7.7 | (0.73) | 7.9 | (1.85) | 7.6 | (0.74) |
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 5.9 | (0.22) | 3.8 | (0.37) | 6.2 | (0.23) | 11.0 | (0.53) | 5.9 | (1.36) | 11.3 | (0.56) |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | 0.9 | (0.11) | 1.2 | (0.22) | 0.9 | (0.10) | 0.6 | (0.11) | 0.4 | (0.24) | 0.6 | (0.11) |
| Other | 3.3 | (0.11) | 4.4 | (0.31) | 3.2 | (0.11) | 2.9 | (0.30) | 6.3 | (1.59) | 2.7 | (0.31) |
| Age (percent) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) |
| 15 to 23 | 56.8 | (0.52) | 45.8 | (1.07) | 58.2 | (0.49) | 11.2 | (0.44) | 8.5 | (1.46) | 11.4 | (0.46) |
| 24 to 29 | 17.3 | (0.28) | 15.5 | (0.59) | 17.5 | (0.28) | 39.6 | (0.93) | 33.9 | (2.69) | 40.0 | (1.00) |
| 30 or older | 25.9 | (0.42) | 38.7 | (1.06) | 24.3 | (0.39) | 49.2 | (1.03) | 57.6 | (2.72) | 48.6 | (1.08) |
| Attendance status (percent) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) |
| Full-time, full-year | 38.6 | (0.45) | 33.5 | (0.72) | 39.2 | (0.45) | 32.7 | (1.01) | 28.9 | (2.76) | 32.9 | (1.03) |
| Part-time or part-year | 61.4 | (0.45) | 66.5 | (0.72) | 60.8 | (0.45) | 67.3 | (1.01) | 71.1 | (2.76) | 67.1 | (1.03) |
| Student housing status (percent) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | — | (†) | — | (†) | — | (†) |
| On-campus | 13.8 | (0.36) | 10.7 | (0.46) | 14.2 | (0.38) | — | (†) | — | (†) | — | (†) |
| Off-campus | 55.2 | (0.47) | 61.5 | (0.81) | 54.4 | (0.47) | — | (†) | — | (†) | — | (†) |
| With parents or relatives | 31.0 | (0.41) | 27.7 | (0.73) | 31.4 | (0.40) | — | (†) | — | (†) | — | (†) |
| Dependency status (percent) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) |
| Dependent | 49.7 | (0.56) | 39.4 | (0.95) | 51.0 | (0.55) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) |
| Independent, unmarried | 15.2 | (0.25) | 19.5 | (0.72) | 14.7 | (0.25) | 47.5 | (1.01) | 48.1 | (3.03) | 47.5 | (1.03) |
| Independent, married | 7.9 | (0.18) | 9.1 | (0.50) | 7.8 | (0.17) | 18.8 | (0.81) | 15.7 | (2.45) | 19.0 | (0.82) |
| Independent with dependents | 27.1 | (0.42) | 32.0 | (0.78) | 26.5 | (0.42) | 33.7 | (1.11) | 36.2 | (3.64) | 33.6 | (1.11) |
| Veteran status (percent) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) |
| Veteran | 3.4 | (0.16) | 6.2 | (0.52) | 3.0 | (0.14) | 3.8 | (0.46) | 2.7 | (0.66) | 3.9 | (0.48) |
| Not veteran | 96.6 | (0.16) | 93.8 | (0.52) | 97.0 | (0.14) | 96.2 | (0.46) | 97.3 | (0.66) | 96.1 | (0.48) |
| Field of study (percent) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) | 100.0 | (†) |
| Business/management | 15.6 | (0.33) | 14.6 | (0.66) | 15.7 | (0.33) | 16.1 | (1.02) | 12.7 | (3.46) | 16.4 | (1.05) |
| Education | 6.7 | (0.23) | 6.3 | (0.42) | 6.8 | (0.23) | 23.7 | (1.53) | 29.7 | (3.09) | 23.3 | (1.64) |
| Engineering/computer science | 4.7 | (0.25) | 3.8 | (0.35) | 4.8 | (0.26) | 8.1 | (0.59) | 4.3 | (1.02) | 8.4 | (0.62) |
| Health | 12.9 | (0.37) | 12.2 | (0.59) | 13.0 | (0.37) | 13.2 | (0.87) | 9.9 | (1.76) | 13.4 | (0.90) |
| Humanities | 10.3 | (0.26) | 10.8 | (0.52) | 10.3 | (0.25) | 7.3 | (0.72) | 6.3 | (1.04) | 7.4 | (0.75) |
| Law | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | 5.5 | (0.35) | 5.6 | (1.13) | 5.5 | (0.36) |
| Life/physical sciences | 4.5 | (0.12) | 4.2 | (0.29) | 4.5 | (0.12) | 3.5 | (0.23) | 3.6 | (0.92) | 3.5 | (0.23) |
| Social/behavioral sciences | 7.0 | (0.17) | 7.3 | (0.34) | 7.0 | (0.18) | 5.5 | (0.35) | 7.8 | (1.84) | 5.3 | (0.33) |
| Vocational/technical | 2.4 | (0.14) | 2.9 | (0.24) | 2.3 | (0.15) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) |
| Undeclared | 21.3 | (0.51) | 22.0 | (0.79) | 21.2 | (0.52) | 9.5 | (1.02) | 9.4 | (1.71) | 9.5 | (1.06) |
| Other | 14.6 | (0.34) | 15.9 | (0.68) | 14.4 | (0.34) | 7.6 | (0.58) | 10.6 | (2.21) | 7.4 | (0.56) |
| —Not available. †Not applicable. ‡ Reporting standards not met. 1 First-professional includes chiropractic medicine, medicine, dentistry, optometry, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, podiatry, veterinary medicine, law, and theology. 2 Disabled students are those who reported that they had one or more of the following conditions: a specific learning disability, a visual handicap, hard of hearing, deafness, a speech disability, an orthopedic handicap, or a health impairment. NOTE: Data include Puerto Rico. Detail may not sum to totals because of survey item nonresponse and rounding. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic origin. Standard errors appear in parentheses. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2003–04 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:04). (This table was prepared August 2005.) |