Number of undergraduate and resident graduate students in universities, colleges, and schools of technology from 1889-90 to 1906-7-Continued.

a Included in universities and colleges for men and for both sexes.

40, 462

In addition to the number of students given in the last line of the above table, there were enrolled 12,663 students in the collegiate and graduate departments of the 110 colleges for women, Division B.

In the summaries by States, Table 43 shows that there are 88 public universities, colleges, and schools of technology. These institutions had an enrollment of 51,591 students in their collegiate departments-38,592 men and 12,999 women; 2,032 in their graduate departments-1,394 men and 638 women. The total enrollment for graduate and collegiate departments, and not including preparatory and professional departments, was 53,623, the number of men being 39,986 and the number of women 13,637.

Table 44 is a similar summary for the 392 private universities, colleges, and schools of technology. These institutions had an enrollment of 90,937 in collegiate departments-52,752 men and 38,185 women; 5,140 in the graduate departments-3,837 men and 1,303 women. The total enrollment for graduate and undergraduate departments, and not including preparatory and professional departments, was 96,077, the number of men being 56,589 and the number of women 39,488.

Table 73, Parts I, II, and III, at the conclusion of this chapter, presents separately certain statistics of State universities and other institutions of higher education partially supported by State funds. The usual information concerning these institutions will be found in Tables 67 and 68. The statistics in Table 73 give additional information in a somewhat different form. This tabulation was the result of a special inquiry made by this Bureau in November, 1907, at the request of the officers of the National Association of State Universities. For several years similar information had been collected by that association for the special purposes of the institutions belonging to the organization.

Table 45 shows that 150 of the 480 universities, colleges, and tech

The 150 institutions for men only had 33,199 undergraduate students, and the 330 institutions for both sexes had 90,332 undergraduate students-59,146 men and 31,186 women.

Tables 46 to 57, inclusive, present the combined statistics of the 480 universities, colleges, and technological schools for men and for both sexes. These institutions had a teaching force of 21,904, the number of men being 19,177 and the number of women 2,727, as shown in Table 46. The 21,904 professors and instructors were distributed as follows, as shown in Table 48: In preparatory departments, 4,034; in collegiate departments, including the graduate departments, 11,921; in professional departments, 5,946.

For 1906-7 the 480 institutions enrolled 263,895 students-191,701 men and 72,194 women-as shown in Tables 47 and 48. There were 69,043 students in the preparatory departments-46,929 men and 22,114 women; 122,531 in the collegiate departments-91,344 men and 31,187 women; 6,894 in the graduate departments-5,231 men and 1,663 women; 33,787 in the professional departments-32,841 men and 946 women.

Table 49 shows that in the 480 institutions there were 33,700 students in technology and applied science, 9,204 in the higher studies of commerce, and 7,206 pursuing collegiate courses for teachers. These numbers are already included in Tables 47 and 48.

Tables 50, 51, 52, and 53 show the degrees conferred in 1907 by the 480 institutions. The following synopsis is made up from Tables 50, 51, and 52 and from Tables 59 and 63 (statistics of colleges for women).

DEGREES CONFERRED.

The total number of degrees of each kind conferred on men and on women in 1906-7 was as follows:

The number of Ph. D. degrees conferred by the several institutions during the year is reported as follows:

Institutions conferring Ph. D. degree in 1907.

Tables 56 and 57 exhibit the financial statistics of the 480 universities, colleges, and technological schools for men only and for both sexes. For the year 1906-7 these institutions received $16,992,996 from student fees, $13,084,477 of this sum being for tuition and other educational services and $3,908,519 for board and other noneducational services. The amount received from productive funds was $9,770,960. The receipts from State or city for increase of plant was $3,774,855; for endowment, $224,685; and for current expenses, $8,141,715. From the United States Government certain of the institutions, including agricultural and mechanical colleges, received $2,665,847. The amount received from private benefactions for

current expenses, $2,440,923. The receipts from all other sources, and sums unclassified, amounted to $4,554,219. The grand total of receipts as reported by these institutions was $68,079,616. Exclusive of private benefactions and public appropriations designated in Table 56 "For endowment," the receipts amounted to $55,414,911. This represented the amount to be used for current expenses and for buildings and improvements.

Table 57 shows that the 480 institutions had in their libraries 12,472,530 volumes, valued at $18,061,412. The value of scientific. apparatus, machinery, and furniture was $28,194,852, and the value of grounds and buildings $244,078,382. The institutions possessed productive funds aggregating $251,189,204.

The purpose and cost of permanent improvements during the year, so far as reported, are shown in the table following:

Purpose and cost of permanent improvements.