This document outlines the definitions and the typology now used by Statistics Canada's Centre for Education Statistics to identify, classify and delineate the universities, colleges and other providers of postsecondary and adult education in Canada for which basic enrollments, graduates, professors and finance statistics are produced. These new…

This new edition of the Carnegie Classification of Higher Education groups American colleges and universities according to their missions and similarity of their programs and purposes. In this 1994 edition, for the first time, institutions are classified according to the highest level of degree conferred, and a new category is introduced--tribal…

The taxonomy of postsecondary-education institutions that was developed by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) is described and compared to taxonomies developed by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education. Criteria used to classify higher education…

This document presents a national tapestry of what is studied where, and by whom, in U.S. colleges, community colleges, and postsecondary trade schools. The "Map" is based on empirical information from national samples of postsecondary transcripts in two national longitudinal studies, the National Longitudinal Study of the High School…

The 1987 Carnegie classification of colleges and universities is presented. The classification groups institutions into categories on the basis of the level of degree offered-- ranging from pre-baccalaureate to the doctorate--and the comprehensiveness of their missions. (MLW)

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…