Note 52 — Front matter

In the college departments of coeducational colleges the average number of women studying is 48.4, whereas in the college departments of independent women’s colleges the average number of women studying is 331.91, and in affiliated colleges 192.8. In 1897–98 11.4 per cent of all the women studying in coeducational colleges obtained the bachelor’s degree, whereas 13.4 per cent of all the women studying in independent women’s colleges obtained the bachelor’s degree, which indicates probably that women prefer women’s colleges for four years of residence. In the same year 13.3 per cent of all men undergraduate students obtained the bachelor’s degree. The average number of graduates of the 4 women’s colleges belonging to the Association of collegiate alumnæ is 1,309 per college, the average age of the colleges being 23 years; the average number of graduates of the 15 coeducational colleges belonging to the Association of college alumnæ is only 469.9, although the average age of the colleges is 27.7 years. During the 8 years from 1890 to 1898, women undergraduate students have increased in coeducational colleges 105.4 per cent, whereas they have increased in women’s colleges, division A, 138.4 per cent. Precisely the reverse is true of men students (see pp. 14 and 15, including foot notes).