May 30, 2008

Higher Education Is in Flux as Demographics Change, Federal Report Shows

By Peter Schmidt

Washington

For-profit colleges are serving a bigger a share of a market that includes an increasing number of women and minority students, according to report released on Thursday by the U.S. Education Department.

The report, a compendium of data published annually by the National Center for Education Statistics, confirms several significant changes in higher education over recent years. It found that women and minority students accounted for a large proportion of enrollment growth at

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