CHAPTER X. COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS SCHOOLS. The actual number of commercial and business schools in the United States is not below 1,000. In 1912 only 519 of these schools reported their statistics to the Bureau of Education. So far as reported more than half the business students that year belonged to public and private high schools. There were 143,150 business students in 2,516 public and private high schools, as compared with 137,790 in the private commercial schools reporting. There must have been between 50,000 and 100,000 students in the commercial schools not. reporting. It is safe to estimate the total number of students in business courses during some part of 1912 at 350,000. The following synopsis relates exclusively to the statistics of the 519 private commercial schools reporting to this office: Summary of instructors, students, and graduates in commercial and business schools, |