Don't forget private, non-profit colleges

Private, non-profit colleges enroll 3.4 million full-time equivalent students, or 30 per cent of all US students attending four-year institutions. But they receive comparatively little attention relative to public colleges and the for-profit sector, perhaps because the conventional wisdom casts private colleges based on the profile of the most elite institutions in the sector, which have large endowments and charge high tuition to mostly wealthy students. This report provides new descriptive information on private, non-profit colleges. Key findings include: private colleges are n... Show more

Authors: Chingos, Matthew M.

Published: Washington, District of Columbia, Brookings Institution, 2017

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: 9 p.

Access item: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/es_20170216_chingos_evidence_speaks.pdf

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