Educational Statistics.

The results of recent investigations carried on by the National Board of Education show that there are 129,204 men and women in the United States attending colleges and universities. In other words, one for every 486 of the population is enrolled in some school of higher education.

In order to reduce the educational statistics of the United States to those of Europe it is necessary to omit the college students in the freshman and sophomore classes and also those first-year students in professional schools who have not received the degree of A.N. or its equivalent. A table prepared on this basis, from a study of the several state catalogues, shows a total of 62,974 students in the colleges and universities of the United States. Of these, 41 percent were prepared at public schools, 40 per cent at preparatory departments of colleges, and 17 per cent at private preparatory schools.