| OCR Text |
Show Education, Training, and Employment of Women 182 enrolled in 1950. Over the same period, the number of women 18 to 21 years of age in the population had increased by only 25 percent. Women's representation among all students in colleges and univer sities offering degree-credit programs had increased from 32 percent in 1950 to 39 percent in 1964.-still slightly below their peak of 40 percent reached in 1939. Table 89.-ENROLLMENTS, BY TYPE OF INSTITUTION, FALL 1964 Women 4-year institutions ________________ Degree-credit enrollments Universities ______ ______________ Liberal arts colleges _______ Independent schools: Teachers colleges Technological Theological, religious _____ ________ Schools of art- __ _______ Other professional ____ Nondegree-eredit enrollments 2-year institutions ___ ________________ Total Number Percent distribution 5,320,294 2,052,106 100.0 38.6 4,328,861 1,680,427 81. 9 38.8 4,274,591 2,110,783 1,396,165 1,663,400 713,744 640,003 81. 1 38.9 497,771 122,813 48, 150 19,925 78,984 54,270 991,433 713,276 278, 157 As percent of total 34.8 33.8 31. 2 45.8 260,213 11,389 11,498 10,427 16,126 17,027 311,619 12.7 52.3 272,706 98,973 13.3 38.2 4.8 35.6 .6 9.3 .6 23.9 .5 52.3 .8 20.4 .8 31. 4 18.1 37.5 Source: U.S. Department of Health, Educatian and Welfare, Office of Education: "Opening (Fall) Circular No. 762. Enrollment in Higher Education, 1964." Type8 of institutions attended by women.-Of the 2,052,106 women enrolled in the 'fall of 1964, 1,680,427 were in 4-year institutions and 371,679 were in 2-year institutions, usually junior colleges. Only a small proportion (1 percent) of those attending 4-year institutions were following a program which did not lead to a degree. In contrast, more than one-fourth (27 percent) of the enrollees in 2- year institu tions were taking a program that would not earn them a degree. A slightly higher proportion of all women enrollees were attending 4-year universities (35 percent) than 4-year liberal arts colleges (31 percent) Thirteen percent were in teachers colleges. Less than 1 percent were in each of the following types of 4-year institutions: technological, theological, art, and other professional schools. . |
