The New England Board of Higher Education’s program provided 9,293 New England residents with an estimated total savings of $53 million on their 2011-12 out-of-state tuition bills. The average savings for a full-time RSP student ...]]>

This academic year marks the third consecutive year of record-high enrollments in the New England Regional Student Program (RSP), Tuition Break.

The New England Board of Higher Education’s program provided 9,293 New England residents with an estimated total savings of $53 million on their 2011-12 out-of-state tuition bills. The average savings for a full-time RSP student was $6,900. Meanwhile, the region’s public colleges received nearly $62 million in 2011-12 tuition revenue from incoming RSP students.

Enrollment at bachelor’s degree-granting institutions accounted for 51% of this year’s RSP enrollment, and increased by 4% over last year. The 10 most popular RSP bachelor’s degree programs in 2011-12 were: biomedical engineering, pharmacy, hospitality and tourism management, visual arts, criminology and criminal justice, recreation management, zoology, communications/media, marine sciences and legal studies.

In all, more than 700 undergraduate and graduate degree programs are made available under the RSP by New England’s 80 public colleges and universities, many of them in specialized and high-demand fields of study.

The 2011-12 Annual RSP Report, just released by NEBHE, provides data on RSP enrollment and tuition revenue and savings by state, institution and program.

Wendy A. Lindsay is senior director of NEBHE's Tuition Break (Regional Student Program).

For more than a half-century, NEBHE has been publishing tables and charts exploring ...]]>

New England's public and private nonprofit colleges and universities enrolled nearly a million full- and part-time students in 2010. But the region's historically disproportionate share of total U.S. enrollment continued to decline to 4.7%, down from 5.4% early in the decade.

For more than a half-century, NEBHE has been publishing tables and charts exploring "Trends & Indicators" in New England's demography, high school performance and graduation, college enrollment, college graduation rates and degree production, higher education financing and university research.

Our new online format allows us to bring you these stats on a more timely basis. To view the latest updates are to our Enrollment section, visit Trends & Indicators: Continually Updated Stats on New England’s Education and Economy.

Our printed compendium richly juxtaposed 60-plus figures on state, regional, national and global higher education trends, ...]]>

For more than half a century, NEBHE has been publishing tables and charts exploring "Trends & Indicators" in New England’s demography, high school performance and graduation, college enrollment, college graduation rates and degree production, higher education financing and university research.

Our printed compendium richly juxtaposed 60-plus figures on state, regional, national and global higher education trends, and became a looked-to source of data and analysis. Along the way, Trends & Indicators also created a visual shorthand view of New England’s cultural and economic vitality.

Now, our new online format allows us to bring you these stats on a more timely basis. ...

Click below to view the full charts and figures for each of our research categories:

1. Demography — Updated May 2012
2. High School Success — Updated April 2012
   
3. College Readiness — Updated August 2012
4. Higher Education Enrollment — Updated December 2011
   
5. Higher Education Enrollment: International Enrollment — Updated July 2012
   
6. College Success — Updated November 2012
   
7. Financing Higher Education — Updated February 2012
8. University Research — Updated March 2011
   

The data are drawn from a variety of sources, including the U.S. Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, the College Board, the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems and NEBHE’s own Annual Survey of New England Colleges and Universities.

Check back periodically as we continue to update new trend data.