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THE Washington Bureau of Education has just issued Bulletin No. 87, dealing with certain statistics of State universities and colleges in the United States of America for the year ended June 30, 1919. This is an annual publication which was formerly prepared and published by the National Association of State Universities, and contains data relating to ninety-two public institutions of university rank. The total enrolment in these State institutions for the year 1917–18 was 110,900, as against 244,231 in the corresponding private institutions. In 1918–19 the lowest enrolment was 31 for the New Mexico School of Mines, and the highest 8857 for the University of Michigan. With regard to teaching staff, the numbers in the State institutions vary from 7 to 908, the latter being the number of teachers in the University of Minnesota in 1918-19. It is curious to find that the University of Michigan with its 8857 enrolments shows an average of 20 regular term students per teacher, while the University of Minnesota with an enrolment of 6095 has an average of only 7. What is perhaps more curious is the fact that the total working income of the former is 3,069,587 dollars, while that of the latter is 3,462,361 dollars.
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University Education in the United States. Nature 107, 794 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107794a0
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