Useful Stats: 2001 Digest of Educational Statistics Released

On March 1, the National Center for Educational Statistics released the 597-page Digest of Educational Statistics, 2001. Included in the tome are several hundred tables covering demographic data for all levels of education. Highlights of relevance to this special Higher Education issue of the SSTI Weekly Digest include: 

• For the 2000-01 academic year, the average annual cost for undergraduate tuition, room and board were estimated to be $7,621 at public colleges and $21,423 at private colleges. After adjustment for inflation, prices at public colleges rose 23 percent between 1990-91 and 2000-01. For private schools, prices increased 27 percent. 
• Research expenditures rose 26 percent per student at public universities during the decade and 36 percent per student at other public four-year institutions. 
• States seeing increases of 20 percent or more in total enrollment at degree-granting institutions between 1990 and 1999 include: Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Utah. States experiencing decreases or no change during the same period are: Alaska, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Michigan, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Wyoming. (Table 191).  
• As a true measure of "brain drain," the states showing negative net migration of students to attend four-year degree granting institutions as freshmen in 1998 are: New Jersey, Illinois, Texas, Maryland, Connecticut, California, Minnesota, New York, Washington, Maine, Hawaii, Alaska, New Mexico, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Wisconsin, Oregon, Montana, Michigan, and South Dakota. The range is -18, 944 for New Jersey to only -28 for South Dakota. (Table 206). 

The full report and individual chapters are available for download at:

http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2002130