The Committee to Revise the 1959 Standards for College Libraries found that great differences existed among colleges in objectives, size, and program breadth, and that library standards should reflect those differences. Therefore, several higher education classification schemes were examined for their applicability to the committee's needs. Two…

A revised landmark Carnegie classification of institutions of higher education, which includes enrollment data, is presented. The classification divides institutions into 6 main categories and a number of subcategories, or 19 categories in all. For doctorate-granting institutions, the following types of institutions are distinguished: research…

Statistics classifying American colleges and universities according to their educational functions and missions are included. Rather than creating a hierarchy, this information groups institutions by shared characteristics. Changes in higher education are portrayed, and a continued growth in institutions of higher education is noted. There are…