HIGHER EDUCATION-SEX OF STUDENTS, INCOME, ETC. (6) Number of students in universities, colleges, and schools of technology per 1,000,000 of the population at various dates. The increase in the proportion of college students to population during the last thirty years leaves no doubt as to the fact that a greater number of people are getting a college education than ever before in the history of the country. (7) Female university and college students to each 1,000,000 of population in 1902. Oberlin College, Ohio, inaugurated the policy of coeducation in 1833, and in the seventy years elapsed since that time about 72 per cent of the colleges and universities of the country have adopted the plan of admitting the two sexes on an equal footing. The foregoing table will show how firm a place coeducation has secured in the newer portions of the country. (8) Proportion of male and of female students in colleges and universities in 1902. The several classes of public institutions for higher education with few exceptions uniformly admit both sexes. Nearly all institutions exclusively for males or exclusively for females are private. 1142 EDUCATION REPORT, 1903. (9) Per cent of undergraduate students in certain courses in American universities, colleges, and schools of technology in 1902. The fact that the student taking a technical course has already chosen his career differentiates somewhat that class of students from those pursuing "general scientific courses," ""other general culture courses," and "classical courses." The various professions are recruited from students in the courses last named, as a rule, the student pursuing a professional course varying from one to four years after graduation from college. (10) Sources of income of the different classes of higher educational institutions in 1902 compared. The figures given here deal with the sources of income of the various classes of higher institutions of learning in the United States. The universities and colleges for men and for both sexes and schools of technology include all institutions which have been beneficiaries of the several land-grant acts of the Federal Congress. State appropriations form a large part of the income of those institutions known as State universities. The institutions for the education of women exclusively are, with few exceptions, under private control. Nearly all the institutions under public control admit both sexes. The exceptions include such technical schools as fit for vocations and professions calling peculiarly for the services of men. HIGHER EDUCATION-ENDOWMENTS. (11) Number of universities and colleges having certain endowments, 1902. This table exhibits the status of American institutions for higher education as to endowment funds. Of 356 institutions having endowments varying from $500 to more than $12,500,000, 78 receive aid from national, municipal, or State governments. The income from these endowments is applied in most cases to the direct maintenance and operation of the respective schools, but in some various amounts are used for the support of scholarships, and in others for research. The aggregate endowment of all institutions, public and private, reaches the consider able amount of $185,944,668. (12) Benefactions to universities, colleges, and schools of technology in ten years. This table is interesting as it shows an increase of nearly threefold in the amount given by individuals to the cause of higher education in the ten years ending with 1902. These remarkable evidences of private munificence attest the great prosperity of the times as well as a growing interest in the financial welfare of American colleges on the part of holders of great wealth. The steady increase from the first year of the decade named, one of great financial depression throughout the country, may be considered as an indication of returning prosperity. (13) Benefactions to higher education in ten years, 1893–1902. North Atlantic Division.. $45,495, 190 | North Central Division South Atlantic Division.. 5,577, 199 Western Division $40, 456, 887 19,779, 848 The aggregate sum of $115,500,000 is shown by this table to have been given by individuals in aid of higher education in the last ten years in the United States. About 39 per cent of this total was given to institutions in the North Atlantic States, against 35 per cent in the North Central States, and 17 per cent in the Western. the remainder going to the two southern groups. (14) Benefactions to different classes of institutions during the year 1902. This table shows the various amounts given to the several classes of schools. "Universities and colleges for men and for both sexes" received nearly three times as much as all other classes of institutions combined. Colleges for women stood next in magnitude of benefactions received. Benefactions to universities and colleges for men and for both sexes, 1902. |