FINANCES

The data in this year’s finances section cover tuition and fees, donations and endowments, and revenue and expenditures. A new table this year looks at the colleges with the greatest gaps between instruction spending and tuition revenue. Tuition and fees have increased for all sectors over the past 10 years, although all of them saw a small decrease last year.

Here’s a sampling of statistics researched by The Chronicle data team.

Among the universities with the greatest positive difference between tuition and fees revenue and instruction costs were larger institutions with high shares of online students, such as the University of Maryland Global Campus with 72.8 percent.

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Two-year private nonprofit institutions and for-profit institutions relied on tuition and fees for more than three-fourths of their overall revenue. Four-year private nonprofit institutions relied on tuition and fees for about 30 percent of their revenue, and four-year public institutions for less than 22 percent.

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More finance data

• Colleges That Raised the Most in Private Donations, FY 2019
• Estimated Voluntary Support of Higher Education, by Source and Purpose, FY 2019