STATISTICS OF STATE UNIVERSITIES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION PARTIALLY SUPPORTED BY THE STATE,

FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1908.

The list of 82 institutions included in these tables is not sharply defined. In general it includes, in addition to fully organized state and territorial universities, such other institutions of higher education as are supported, at least in part, by the several States. It does not include state normal schools nor high schools. Of the 82 institutions in the list, 51 receive also federal support under the Morrill Act of 1890 and the Nelson amendment of 1907. There are 17 other institutions, not included in the tables, which enjoy the benefit of these congressional appropriations.

Table 1 presents certain items respecting the student body and the teaching force of the institutions enumerated. Table 2 deals with teachers' salaries and with the income of the several institutions, distributed according to its chief sources. Table 3 gives other fiscal items concerning which questions are frequently raised. The incompleteness of Table 3 is due to the fragmentary character of the reports furnished to this office.

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