Institutional data:
8. There are 71.4 percent of students enrolled either exclusively or only in some DE courses at public institutions; 19.5 percent at non-profits; and 9.1 percent at for-profits.
9. 48 percent of all student enrollments in for-profit institutions were enrolled exclusively in Distance Education (DE) courses. Only 8 percent of public institution enrollments were exclusively in DE courses.
“For non-profits and for-profits, the majority of their distance students are enrolled fully online, while public students tend to mix their enrollments with traditional courses,” explains Straut.
10. An analysis of data for 2-year and 4-year institutions reveals clearly that adoption in exclusively DE courses is highest, by far, among private, for-profit 4-year institutions at 61 percent, while their for-profit counterparts at the 2-year level report just 4.9 percent of enrollments in exclusively DE courses. Public institutions at the 4-year and above level report 7 percent exclusively online enrollments, public 2-year schools at 10 percent and public, less than 2-year institutions report only 0.5 percent fully online.
For more analysis, including distance education for students in-state versus out-of-state, visit WCET’s post “Clearing Misconceptions in Distance Ed Enrollments by Sector: IPEDS Reality Check,” and “U.S. Distance Education Adoption by the Numbers: An IPEDS Reality Check.”
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