States and Territories. TABLE 47.-Summary of Statistics of Colleges of Liberal Arts for 1887-88. 13 | 1 14 15 16 TABLE 47.-Summary of Statistics of Colleges of Liberal Arts for 1887-88-Continued. Income for Year from Productive Funds. Municipal Aid ReAmount of State or ceived within the Year. Amount of Receipts within the Year from Tuition Fees. Income for Year from All Sources except Charges for Board and Lodging. Benefactions. GROWTH AND PRESENT STATUS OF UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. The following is a statement of the aggregate number of universities and colleges, with instructors and students, as reported to this Bureau each year from 1878 to 1888, inclusive (1583 omitted): Number of institutions...... 358 364 1 364 362 4.361 355 370 365 345 361 357 3,855 4,241 4.160 4.413 4.644 4.536 4.720 5,266 4,834 57,167 60,011 30,594 62,435 64,696 65,502 63,728 167, 642 70,024 75,333 Table 47 presents the summarized statistics of three hundred and fifty-seven colleges having a total of seventy-five thousand three hundred and thirty-three students and four thousand eight hundred and thirty-four professors. Thirty-six per cent. of the students are in preparatory departments reported from two hundred and fifty-seven colleges. Forty-four colleges do not report the classification of their students, and fifty-six, or 16 per cent., are engaged solely in collegiate work. In this small proportion are comprised a little more than one-third of the college students of the country. The North Atlantic Division shows the largest proportion of colleges in this category. Two hundred and fifty-eight colleges report productive funds to the amount of $60,318,481. Thirty-five had the benefit of State or municipal aid to the amount of $1.225,590. The total income, viz, $8,885,515, representing three hundred and seven colleges is derived as follows: From productive funds,39 per cent.; from State aid, 14 per cent.; and from tuition fees, 28 per cent. From an analysis of details given in Table 49 it appears that, considering attendance, the number of colleges reporting one hundred or more students in collegiate departments is one hundred and eighteen. If colleges thus reported are divided into four classes, viz, those having from one to two hundred collegiate students; from two to four hundred; from four to eight hundred; and above eight hundred, the following is found to be their distribution, considering the country by geographical sections: The following tabulation shows the limits of the number of college students to one college professor in the four classes of colleges here considered, so far as they have supplied the data: Lowest and Highest Number of College Students to One College Professor. College Students College Students College Students College Students 100 to 200. 200 to 400. 400 to 800. above 800. |