Ministry of Education and Science data shows consistent increases in the number of students at four year universities since 1983.
FORBES: Demographic Decline and Investment Intensity in Children -- Observations on China and Japan
Often, attendance at these schools is a stepping stone to more traditional four-year universities.
These schools feeds into a system of four-year universities among which are such engineering giants as Purdue University.
However, I quickly became concerned thinking about how many students in previous years had not enrolled in four-year universities despite being eligible and prepared.
Today Pell Grants, mostly Pell Grants, federal grants for students from poorer families, cover 57% of the tuition expenses at four year public universities.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Higher education 'market' warning
Santa Barbara City College is a big urban college with about 21, 000 students and a strong focus on preparing graduates to transfer to four-year universities.
In 1986 the federal grants covered 98% of tuition expenses at four year public universities in the United States - virtually all of those tuition expenditures.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Higher education 'market' warning
Many of my peers at my public high school were talented and had the grades and test scores to attend four-year universities and colleges, but lacked the guidance or resources to navigate the admissions process.
It is surely better to rethink the career structure of your employees than to see it wither (the proportion of professors at four-year universities who are on track to win tenure fell from 50% in 1997 to 39% ten years later).
During the chat, he addressed a wide variety of topics, including the role Income Based Repayment (IBR) plans can play in helping former students manage their debt, the importance of higher education, from four-year universities to community colleges and technical and vocational training, and the vital role of public education.
And even in the best of times, they receive far less funding than four-year colleges and universities.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Meets with Economic Recovery Advisory Board | The White House
Our list reflects what freshmen entering any of these traditional, four-year colleges and universities can expect to be billed for tuition, fees, room and board.
Meantime, at four-year public colleges and universities, tuition and fees for in-state students rose 4.8% in the 2012-13 academic year, the smallest increase since 2000-01, according to the College Board.
Between 2005 and 2007, data was collected from 24 four-year institutions, including state universities and liberal-arts colleges.
The authors of the book, Bert Sperling and Peter Sander , collected the number of two- and four-year colleges and the number of universities with selective admissions from the National Center for Education Statistics and Princeton Review, respectively.
According to the Department of Education, there are currently 2, 235 four year not-for-profit colleges and universities and 1, 067 two-year colleges in the United States.
FORBES: Tuition Discount Alert: 50 Great Colleges Desperately Seeking Students
There was just 50 million more for colleges and universities this year and 100 million more over the next four years.
应用推荐