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Digest of Education Statistics: 2010
Digest of Education Statistics: 2010

NCES 2011-015
April 2011


Table 378. Total expenditures of private for-profit degree-granting institutions, by purpose and type of institution: 2008-09
Type of institution Total expenditures, by purpose
Total Instruction Research and public service Student services, academic and institutional support Auxiliary enterprises1 Net grant aid to students2 Other
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  In thousands of current dollars
Total $16,364,360 $3,871,127 $9,939 $11,004,500 $396,704 $44,440 $1,037,650
4-year 12,399,217 2,580,208 7,629 8,832,095 276,200 33,417 669,669
Doctoral/research3 2,577,448 404,378 264 2,084,457 2,625 0 85,725
Master's4  2,269,558 375,006 224 1,640,841 44,968 310 208,209
Baccalaureate5 2,801,981 734,472 1,426 1,866,096 50,419 14,086 135,481
Specialized institutions6  4,750,230 1,066,352 5,716 3,240,701 178,189 19,021 240,253
Art, music, or design 1,905,533 486,545 3,511 1,259,830 130,184 1,021 24,441
Business and management 1,378,268 231,214 197 978,632 35,747 11,540 120,938
Engineering or technology 984,856 231,612 207 705,542 8,841 1,400 37,255
Law 105,273 27,408 1,154 53,656 76 5,060 17,919
Medical or other health 254,911 47,027 647 178,761 1,525 0 26,951
Other specialized 121,390 42,546 0 64,279 1,816 0 12,749
2-year 3,965,143 1,290,919 2,310 2,172,405 120,504 11,023 367,981
  Percentage distribution
Total 100.00 23.66 0.06 67.25 2.42 0.27 6.34
4-year 100.00 20.81 0.06 71.23 2.23 0.27 5.40
Doctoral/research3 100.00 15.69 0.01 80.87 0.10 0.00 3.33
Master's4  100.00 16.52 0.01 72.30 1.98 0.01 9.17
Baccalaureate5 100.00 26.21 0.05 66.60 1.80 0.50 4.84
Specialized institutions6  100.00 22.45 0.12 68.22 3.75 0.40 5.06
Art, music, or design 100.00 25.53 0.18 66.11 6.83 0.05 1.28
Business and management 100.00 16.78 0.01 71.00 2.59 0.84 8.77
Engineering or technology 100.00 23.52 0.02 71.64 0.90 0.14 3.78
Law 100.00 26.04 1.10 50.97 0.07 4.81 17.02
Medical or other health 100.00 18.45 0.25 70.13 0.60 0.00 10.57
Other specialized 100.00 35.05 0.00 52.95 1.50 0.00 10.50
2-year 100.00 32.56 0.06 54.79 3.04 0.28 9.28
  Expenditure per full-time-equivalent student in current dollars
Total $12,848 $3,039 $8 $8,640 $311 $35 $815
4-year 12,654 2,633 8 9,013 282 34 683
Doctoral/research3 7,328 1,150 1 5,926 7 0 244
Master's4  13,537 2,237 1 9,787 268 2 1,242
Baccalaureate5 15,436 4,046 8 10,280 278 78 746
Specialized institutions6  17,027 3,822 20 11,616 639 68 861
Art, music, or design 21,854 5,580 40 14,448 1,493 12 280
Business and management 11,789 1,978 2 8,371 306 99 1,034
Engineering or technology 18,629 4,381 4 13,346 167 26 705
Law 36,591 9,527 401 18,650 26 1,759 6,228
Medical or other health 20,733 3,825 53 14,539 124 0 2,192
Other specialized 17,734 6,216 0 9,391 265 0 1,863
2-year 13,498 4,394 8 7,395 410 38 1,253
1 Essentially self-supporting operations of institutions that furnish a service to students, faculty, or staff, such as residence halls and food services.
2 Excludes tuition and fee allowances and agency transactions, such as student awards made from contributed funds or grant funds.
3 Includes institutions that award at least 20 doctor's degrees per year, but did not have high levels of research activity.
4 Master's institutions award at least 50 master's degrees per year.
5 Baccalaureate institutions primarily emphasize undergraduate education. Also includes institutions classified as 4-year under the IPEDS system, which had been classified as 2-year in the Carnegie classification system because they primarily award associate's degrees.
6 Special focus 4-year institutions award degrees primarily in single fields of study, such as medicine, business, fine arts, theology, and engineering.
NOTE: Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2008-09 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2009 and Spring 2010. (This table was prepared October 2010.)