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Colleges Reporting Cuts in Campus Computing Budgets, 2006-11

August 26, 2012

More than half of public colleges and universities had their technology budgets reduced during the past academic year. Private institutions fared better.

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Colleges Reporting Cuts in Campus Computing Budgets, 2006-11

More than half of public colleges and universities had their technology budgets reduced during the past academic year. Private institutions fared better.

	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Public research universities	16.1%	16.4%	44.4%	67.1%	59.8%	54.7%
Private research universities	5.9%	6.6%	22.8%	56.9%	24.4%	23.9%
Public master’s and baccalaureate 4-year colleges	14.0%	16.7%	44.4%	62.8%	45.8%	43.6%
Private master’s and baccalaureate 4-year colleges	7.5%	13.0%	22.5%	41.9%	33.9%	24.7%
Community colleges	3.3%	14.1%	24.6%	38.0%	46.2%	39.0%

Note: Results are based on survey data provided by senior campus information-technology officials from two- and four-year public and private nonprofit colleges and universities.

Source: Campus Computing Project