In the absence of continuous legislative and institutional intervention, the demand for services provided by vocational and registered nurses in California over the next ten years will greatly outpace the supply of nurses anticipated to flow from postsecondary degree programs. Nursing education and supply issues can be better understood and…

This report presents the degrees conferred by Connecticut institutions of higher education in 2008-09. Connecticut colleges and universities awarded 38,047 degrees in 2008-09, up 3.9 percent from 2007-08, the state's eighth consecutive year of growth and a 28 percent increase since 1999. This is the largest annual gain in 20 years with the…

The authors document the types of undergraduate colleges and universities attended by those who earned a doctorate in economics from an American university from 1966 through 2003. They examine relationships between type of undergraduate institution and attrition and time-to-degree in PhD programs. The total number of new economics PhDs awarded to…

"Projections of Education Statistics to 2018" is the 37th report in a series begun in 1964. It includes statistics on elementary and secondary schools and degree-granting institutions. Included are projections of enrollment, graduates, teachers, and expenditures to the year 2018. This is the first edition of the "Projections of…

The purpose of this report is to take a closer look at the experiences of Latina/o students who transfer from the California Community Colleges (CCC) to the California State University (CSU) or the University of California (UC). The authors examine the role of the CCC in the postsecondary education of Latina/o students, the characteristics of…

British universities are known among the other Bologna countries not to have adjusted fully to the new common three-tier degree structure. Is it the case that British higher educational concerns are different from Continental concerns? A study of recent developments in two British graduate schools of history shows that a three-tier study structure…

This paper presents the degrees conferred by Connecticut institutions of higher education in 2007-08. Connecticut colleges and universities awarded 36,634 degrees in 2007-08 (up 1.6% over 2006-07), the state's seventh consecutive year of growth and a 28 percent increase since 1998. Once again, the top five degree-producing disciplines were…

The 773,375 bachelor's and higher degrees conferred by 1,565 institutions during 1966-67 was the largest number in US history and represented an increase of almost 59,000 or 8% since 1965-66, a rate of increase that seems to have stabilized over the last 3 years. Tables provide summary data by level of degree, field of specialization, sex of…

This document provides a detailed listing of bachelor's and higher degrees conferred in each academic field by each institution during the period from July 1, 1968 through June 30, 1969. Table 1 presents a brief historical comparison of degrees granted from 1965-66 through 1968-69. Table 2 is a summary of the degrees conferred in 1968-69 by level…

The National Association of Schools of Music makes recommendations to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the National Council for Accreditation for Teacher Education concerning music curricula. Outlined are the requirements for admission to curricula leading to the baccalaureate, general requirements for graduating from…

Presents a listing of the number of students graduating from B.S., certified B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. programs in chemistry from different American universities. Briefly discusses rankings of different colleges. (DC)

Bachelors degrees in engineering show a 13 percent rise over last year; doctorates have yet to be affected by the undergraduate enrollment boom. (Author/BB)

North Carolina senior colleges and universities awarded 6.3% more degrees in 1971-72 than in the previous year. Data provided by the 47 public and private senior institutions show that 26,214 degrees were awarded in 1971-72 compared to 24,669 in 1970-71. The increase occurred at all levels--bachelor's, first professional, master's, and doctor's.…

This document presents a report of earned degrees conferred by institutions of higher education in the United States in 1969-1970. Some of the highlights of the report include: (1) 1,072,581 degrees were conferred at the bachelor's and higher levels at 1,617 institutions; (2) publically controlled institutions awarded 65% of all degrees; (3)…

This document presents earned degree data in the fields of science and engineering from 1966-2000 obtained from two surveys, bachelor's and master's degree data from the U.S. Department of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Completions Survey and doctoral degree data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED).…