More than 928,000 students were enrolled at New England’s colleges and universities in 2008, up by more than 100,000 students over the decade.
Nearly half of New England college students attend private institutions, compared with just over one-quarter nationally.
Women students began to outnumber men on New England college and university campuses in 1978, and the imbalance has grown to a...
Only 19% of students at New England’s traditionally two-year community colleges graduate within three years of enrolling—and the rate is even lower among minority groups.
Nearly 60% of all higher education degrees awarded in New England are conferred on women.
More than one-quarter of doctorates awarded by New England universities go to foreign students, while fewer than two in 10 ...
New England claims many of the largest college endowments on earth, but even the titans have been beaten and bruised by the current deep recession.
New England has the dubious distinction of some of America’s smallest state appropriations and highest tuitions and fees for public colleges and universities. Education advocates joke about the region’s public campuses going from state-op...
New England universities performed more than $3.7 billion worth of research and development in 2008, but the region’s share has dropped to 7.3% of the U.S. total, down from more than 10% in the 1980s. Had the region’s share stayed at 10%, an additional $1.5 billion would have been spent in New England university labs in 2008 alone.
New England university research labs have been world-...
Since 1990, New England’s population has grown by just 9%, compared with 23% for the nation as a whole and more than 62% for the Mountain states.
New England’s slow population growth has scared off potential employers and threatened the region’s clout in the population-based U.S. House of Representatives.
Massachusetts is among eight states in the Northeast and Midwest th...
