Historical Summary of Higher Education by Year, 1869 – 1990 - Education by the Numbers

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Historical Summary of Higher Education by Year, 1869 - 1990

Year	Total institutions	Total professional staff	Total male professional staff	Total female professional staff	Total instructional staff	Total fall enrollment	Total male students	Total female students	Total associate degrees awarded	Male associate degrees	Female associate degrees	Total bachelor's degrees	Male bachelor's degrees	Female bachelor's degrees	Total master's degrees	Male master's degrees	Female master's degrees	Total first professional degree	Male first professional degree	Female first professional degree	Total doctorates	Male doctorates	Female doctorates	Current fund revenue	Educational and general income	Current fund expenditures	Educational and general expenditures	Value of physical property	Endowment funds
1869-70	563	5,553	4,887	666		62,839	49,467	13,372				9,371	7,993	1,378							1	1	0
1879-80	811	11,522	7,328	4,194		115,850	77,994	37,856				12,896	10,411	2,485	879	868	11				54	51	3
1889-90	998	15,809	12,704	3,105		156,756	100,453	56,303				15,539	12,857	2,682	1,015	821	194				149	147	2		21,464			95,426	78,788
1899-00	977	23,868	19,151	4,717		237,592	152,254	85,338				27,410	22,173	5,237	1,583	1,280	303				382	359	23		35,084			253,599	194,998
1909-10	951	36,480	29,132	7,348		355,430	214,779	140,651				37,199	28,762	8,437	2,113	1,555	558				443	399	44	76,883	67,917			457,954	323,661
1919-20	1,041	48,615	35,807	12,808		597,880	314,938	282,942				48,622	31,980	16,642	4,279	2,985	1,294				615	522	93	199,922	172,929			747,333	569,071
1929-30	1,409				82,386	1,100,737	619,935	480,802				122,484	73,615	48,869	14,969	8,925	6,044				2,299	1,946	353	554,511	494,092	507,142	377,903	2,065,049	1,372,068
1939-40	1,708	146,929	106,328	40,601	110,885	1,494,203	893,250	600,953				186,500	109,546	76,954	26,731	16,508	10,223				3,290	2,861	429	715,211	538,511	674,688	521,990	2,753,780	1,686,283
1949-50	1,851	246,722	186,189	60,533	190,353	2,444,900	1,721,572	723,328				432,058	328,841	103,217	59,183	41,220	16,963				6,420	5,804	616	2,374,645	1,751,393	2,245,661	1,706,444	4,799,964	2,601,223
1959-60	2,004	380,554	296,773	83,781	281,506	3,639,847	2,332,617	1,307,230				392,440	254,063	138,377	74,435	50,898	23,537				9,829	8,801	1,028	5,785,537	4,593,485	5,601,376	4,685,258	13,548,548	5,322,080
1969-70	2,525				551,000	8,004,660	4,746,201	3,258,459	206,023	117,432	88,591	792,317	451,097	341,220	208,291	125,624	82,667	34,758	32,794	1,784	29,912	25,890	4,022	21,515,242	17,144,194	21,043,110	16,845,210	42,093,580	10,837,343
1979-80	3,152					11,569,899	5,682,877	5,887,022	400,910	183,737	217,173	929,417	473,611	455,806	298,081	150,749	147,332	70,131	52,716	17,415	32,615	22,943	9,672	58,519,982	46,534,023	56,913,588	44,542,843	83,733,387	18,561,472
1987-88	3,587	1,437,975	850,451	587,524	954,534	12,766,642	5,932,056	6,834,586	435,085	190,047	245,038	994,829	477,203	517,626	299,317	145,163	154,154	70,735	45,484	25,251	34,870	22,615	12,255	117,340,109	91,863,743	113,786,476	89,157,430	133,228,717
1988-89	3,565					13,055,337	6,001,896	7,053,441	436,764	186,316	250,448	1,018,755	483,346	535,409	310,621	149,354	161,267	70,856	45,046	25,810	35,720	22,648	13,072	128,501,638	100,598,033	123,867,184	96,803,377	142,425,392
1989-90	3,535	1,531,071	880,766	650,305	987,518	13,538,560	6,190,015	7,348,545	454,679	191,072	263,607	1,049,657	491,488	558,169	323,844	153,643	170,201	70,980	44,002	26,978	38,238	24,371	13,867	139,635,477	109,241,902	134,655,571	105,585,076	155,401,508
Year	Total institutions	Total professional staff	Total male professional staff	Total female professional staff	Total instructional staff	Total fall enrollment	Total male students	Total female students	Total associate degrees awarded	Male associate degrees	Female associate degrees	Total bachelor's degrees	Male bachelor's degrees	Female bachelor's degrees	Total master's degrees	Male master's degrees	Female master's degrees	Total first professional degree	Male first professional degree	Female first professional degree	Total doctorates	Male doctorates	Female doctorates	Current fund revenue	Educational and general income	Current fund expenditures	Educational and general expenditures	Value of physical property	Endowment funds

Source: 120 Years of American Education: A Statistical Portrait, National Center for Education Statistics, Thomas D. Snyder, editor, p. 75.