Trends in Financial Indicators of Colleges and Universities

摘要

The survey was mailed to 600 Panel member institutions (major research universities, whose financial structures are too complex to be analyzed by the same methods used for examining smaller institutions' status were excluded--in addition to medical and other health profession schools, Bible colleges and seminaries, and other highly specialized institutions whose expenditure patterns differ markedly from all other institutions). Respondents were asked to report, for the academic years 1974/75, 1976/77, and 1978/79, basic finance data, dormitory occupancy rates, the occurrence of institutional loan defaults or moratoriums, and selected faculty and student information (usable responses received from 410 institutions--68 percent of those surveyed). The findings from this survey were merged with data collected earlier by the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) for the same three academic years in the areas of finance, enrollment, and instructional faculty. This report is part of a larger research effort funded by the U.S. Department of Education and conducted jointly by the American Council on Education (ACE) and the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO). It is primarily descriptive, rather than analytical, and leaves discussion of the merits of particular indicators and how they interrelate to the larger ACE/NACUBO financial conditions project.