Enrollments go up, up, and away . . .
The 2008 Condition of Education came out this week (access data here), and here are some of the major findings for higher education.
Undergraduate enrollments are projected to reach new highs every year from now until 2017.
Around three-quarters of students who go to four-year colleges select colleges within their state.
From 1970 to 2006, female enrollments have increased three times as fast as male enrollments. Today women make up 57 percent of the undergraduate population.
While part-time student enrollment grew five times as fast as full-time enrollment during the 1970s, full-time enrollment grew three times as fast as part-time from 2000 to 2006.
From 2000 to 2006, enrollment in four-year colleges grew twice as fast as enrollment in two-year colleges.
From 2000 to 2006, private-school enrollment grew twice as fast as public-school enrollment.
Public-school enrollment is about 78 percent of overall enrollment.
For graduate school, enrollment went from 1.3 million to 2.2 million from 1976 to 2006.
During the same years, female enrollment grew 117 percent, male enrollment 24 percent.
Women made up 46 percent of graduate enrollments in 1976, 50 percent in 1984, and 60 percent in 2006.
In 2006 minorities made up 23 percent of total graduate students. In 2000 they made up 19 percent.
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