November 8, 2002

Distance Education Attracts Older Women Who Have Families and Jobs, Study Finds

By DAN CARNEVALE

The U.S. Department of Education has released a study showing that older women with families and jobs were more drawn to undergraduate distance-education programs during the 1999-2000 academic year than were members of other groups.

The report offers the most recent large-scale research into who enrolls in distance-education programs. Over all, about 7.6 percent of students taking

college courses during the 1999-2000 academic year did so through distance education. Most

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