This document provides data and reference information on Alabama's public and private institutions of higher education. Preceding the main body of the report, the following information is provided for the state's 47 four-year and two-year colleges: fall headcount enrollment; tuition and fees; completions awarded in 1995-96; and full-time instructional faculty. The main body of the report presents tables and graphs organized into the following categories: (1) current enrollment, e.g., general characteristics, all public institutions, all private institutions, students' origins); (2) finance revenues and expenditures, e.g., Alabama current funds revenues and expenditures, public and private for fiscal year (FY) 1996; (3) tuition and required fees, e.g., public four-year median undergraduate, in-state and out-of state; (4) average faculty salaries, e.g., five-year summary, state averages, and at full-time public four-year institutions; (5) completions (degrees conferred), e.g., completions at public and private institutions, completions by level and gender, and number and percent of completions by field of study and level; (6) facilities, e.g., facility inventory and net assignable space by use; and (7) network of Alabama academic libraries, e.g., information resources for FY 1995-96 and library services FY 1995-96. (DB)