Sectors With the Highest Shares of Undergraduates Formally Registered as Students With Disabilities, Fall 2016

Colleges in the four-year public sector were the most likely to have had 4 percent or more of undergraduate students formally reporting that they had a disability to the office of disability services or a similar office. The offices promote equal access and provide such services as note takers and American Sign Language interpreters. Two-year and four-year for-profit institutions were the sectors that were the least likely to have had 4 percent or more of their students reporting disabilities.

Note: Undergraduate students with disabilities are those who reported that they had one or more of the following conditions: a specific learning disability, a visual impairment, a hearing deficiency, deafness, a speech impairment, an orthopedic impairment, or a health impairment. Undergraduates who were enrolled in the fall of 2016 and formally registered with the disabilities-services office or its equivalent were counted. Students are not required to inform their colleges that they have a disability. If they want an adjustment to accommodate the disability, however, they should report it. Percentages of students reporting disabilities may reflect awareness and the level of availability of services at colleges, along with the prevalence of disabilities. Percentages may not sum to 100 because the percentages of institutions that did not report any students with disabilities are not shown. Distributions were based on percentages that had been rounded to whole numbers. Questions or comments on the Almanac should be sent to Ruth Hammond.

Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data

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