This document presents 33 data tables summarizing the current status and recent trends in postsecondary education in Maryland. A table comparing overall Maryland statistics with national statistics is presented first. This is followed by data tables grouped into the following categories: (1) students, (2) retention and graduation, (3) degrees, (4) faculty, (5) revenues and expenditures, (6) tuition and fees, (7) financial aid, and (8) private career schools. Data tables provide information on such areas as: core and non-core curriculum students needing remediation in college; undergraduate enrollment, fall 1997; graduate and professional enrollment, fall 1997; enrollment by race and gender, fall 1997; retention and graduation by race; community college graduation and transfer rates; degrees by institution, by major program, and by race and gender; full- and part-time faculty, fall 1997; unrestricted revenues and expenditures of community colleges and public four-year colleges/universities, fiscal year 1998; total capital budget authorizations by campus, fiscal years 1994-99; community college and public four-year tuition and fees, 1994-98; undergraduate and graduate financial aid, 1996-97; and enrollments at private career schools, 1997. (DB)