This document presents data on state tax appropriations to higher education for the approximately 500 colleges and universities belonging to the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges for academic year 1972-73. Reducible to exact figures are such matters as the growth-rates of population in each state over recent years, the appropriations of state tax funds for operating expenses of higher education per citizen, the gross and per capita average annual personal income in each state, the total of state and local tax collections in each state for any recent year reduced to per capita terms, the state and local tax total per $1,000 of personal income, and the ratios between per capita incomes and per citizen appropriations of state tax funds for operating expenses of higher education in each state and nationwide. (Author/HS)