How to use FACTS 2000

New England Journal of Higher Education, The, 2000

1. The higher education institutions listed in FACTS 2000 are authorized to grant academic degrees at certificate, dissociate, bachelor's, master's or doctoral levels. (There are a few exceptions: students at Forsyth School for Dental Hygienists and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Massachusetts earn degrees through affiliation with other schools.) Colleges and universities are Listed alphabetically by state with public instutions appearing first, followed by independent institutions. A special section listing law and medical schools follows the state-by-state sections.

Independent institutions listed in FACTS are nonprofit except for the following proprietary institutions: Briarwood College and Paier College of Art, Inc. in Connecticut; Andover College and Beat College in Maine; Arthur D. Little Management Education Institute, Katharine Gibbs School and Massachusetts Communications College in Massachusetts; Hesser College and Mcintosh College in New Hampshire; and New England Culinary Institute in Vermont. Information in the FACTS 2000 institutional listings is based on the results of a New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) survey conducted in the summer and fall of 1999.

2. Institutions generally provide their main telephone and facsimile numbers and the institution's address on the World Wide Web. (For telephone numbers of admissions offices, see the listing section titled "Admissions Information.")

3. Brief descriptions note the year the institution was founded, types of programs offered and degrees awarded.

4. The FACTS survey asks campuses to provide the names and titles of approximately 30 campus officers. In general, the campus officers listed and the order in which they appear are determined by the survey respondent.

5. For consistency, descriptions of campus environment are generally limited to rural, suburban or urban. Because this information is self-reported, this item reflects how respondents perceive the institution's immediate surroundings.

6. Most New England colleges and universities are accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), a regional accrediting body based in Bedford, ass. NE,SC accreditation indicates that a college has purposes appropriate to higher education, has the necessary resources to achieve its stated proposes through educational programs, is substantially doing so, and gives reasonable evidence that it will continue to do so in the foreseeable future. Accreditation by NEASC applies to the institution as a whole; therefore it is not a guarantee of the qualiy of ever course offered. NE indicates that an institution is accredited by NEASC. NE card indicates that the institution is a candidate For accreditation by NEASC.

Some New England institutions and/or their individual programs are accredited by various national accrediting bodies. Specialized indicates that an institution or one or more of its academic programs carries such accreditation. Interested students should contact the institution directly to receive detailed information about such accreditation.

In the case of the New England law and medical schools included in FACTS 2000; additional accreditation is indicated as follows:

AALS Association of American Law Schools

ABA American Bar Association

AMA-AAMA American Medical Association-American Association of Medical Assistants

AMA-CAHEA American Medical Association-Committee on Allied Health Education and Accreditation

AOA American Osteopathic Association

LCME Liaison Committee on Medical Education

7. In a semester system, the academic year is divided into two equal units. In a trimester system, the year is divided into three units. In a quarter system, the year is divided into four units. Other calendar systems include 4-1-4, which features two terms of four months each and a one-month intersession intended for experimental or intensive study and variations such as 4-4-1 or 4-1-4-1. A modular system is characterized by short periods of study or "mods," usually about eight weeks long.

8. An institution's student body is classified as men for men only, women for women only or coed for men and women.

9. Tuition/Fees refers to mual tuition and mandatory fees for a typical undergraduate (except in the case of institutions that enroll only graduate students). For public institutions, in-state tuition and mandatory fees are listed first; followed by out-of-state tuition and mandatony fees. Tuition and Fees are current for the 1999-2000 academy year. Fees may include the cost of health insurance required by some institutions if students are not covered by comparable health insurance. The figures listed for Tuition/Fees do not include room and board charges unless otherwise indicated.

10. Room and Board refers to average annual charges for students living on campus and participating in a standard meal plan (unless otherwise noted) during the 1999-2000 academic year. On campus housing is categorized as: m - housing for men; w - housing for women; c - coed housing; and f - housing for families or married students.