Two Southeastern states have taken different directions on access: One has reined in tuition. The other state let it grow.

Women were underrepresented in computer science, earning only about 20 percent of the associate, bachelor’s, or doctoral degrees in the field.

On average, public doctoral institutions had at least twice the enrollment of any other type of institution.

Nearly two-thirds of college presidents who worked their way up within higher education were previously provosts.

Over five years, the proportion of presidents who were members of minority groups climbed by about four percentage points.

The market value of Harvard University’s endowment dropped by nearly $2 billion in a year, but it is still far larger than any other university’s endowment.

Almost all of the top fund raisers were doctoral universities with the highest research activity.

Eleven institutions with the highest charges for state residents were in Pennsylvania, and 10 were in New Jersey.

Among the 100 most expensive colleges, 64 charged tuition and fees exceeding $50,000.

Discount rates grew by more than 11 percentage points for first-time, full-time freshmen.

Of the 177 private degree-granting institutions that fell short, 112 were nonprofit and 65 were for-profit.

Nearly two-thirds of expenditures at four-year for-profit institutions went to student services, and academic and institutional support.

Higher-education institutions spent nearly $68.7 billion on research and development in the 2015 fiscal year.

The University of Phoenix-Arizona received more than $1.1 billion in federal aid for Pell Grants and federal student loans for undergraduates.

Women’s pay was closest to men’s in the position with the lowest female representation: top executive.

In two of the three executive positions in which women’s median salaries exceeded men’s, female representation was relatively low.

Two-year and four-year for-profit institutions paid higher average salaries than completely distance-education institutions in other sectors did.

Average salaries at most institutions were below $50,000.

In just one such executive post did racial and ethnic minorities represent more than 20 percent of job holders.

The largest occupational category was office and administrative support, representing more than 20 percent of such employees.

Just under half of the full-time instructional staff at tribal and historically black colleges were female.

Salaries were highest among professors at institutions that mainly served traditional full-time, degree-seeking students.

Three research institutions had at least 10 Fulbright scholars in the 2016-17 academic year.

The proportion of associate degrees grew fairly steadily, while bachelor’s degrees have declined since 2005.

Twelve research institutions had at least 20 Fulbright students by January 25 of the latest academic year.

By the end of 2015, the total student-loan debt balance had risen to more than $1.2 trillion, accounting for over 10 percent of all household debt.

Four-year public institutions were the only sector with consistently positive growth over the past two years.

The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Washington led in such spending in the 2015 fiscal year.

Personal giving from alumni and other individuals declined from the previous year in the 2016 fiscal year.

Per-student spending at colleges whose library materials were at least 85 percent digital ranged from $60 to $768.

Twelve colleges on the list charged nonstate residents tuition and fees that were more than triple the in-state amount.

Online or digital journals and databases, along with e-books, consumed more than 70 percent of academic libraries’ materials budgets.

The average published tuition and fees for full-time undergraduates continued to increase, for the most part, beyond the rate of inflation.

Graduation rates for all of the top 20 four-year private nonprofit colleges were above 90 percent, compared with six above 90 percent for the top 20 four-year public institutions.

Doctorate recipients in the physical sciences finished their degrees in the shortest period of time and at the youngest median age.

Doctoral universities and associate colleges each enroll almost a third of all students.

Women accumulated more debt than men at every level of higher education.

Female graduate students who were 25 and older were more likely than their male counterparts to be from 35 to 64 years old.

More than a quarter of all undergraduate students in the United States were 25 or older in the fall of 2015.

The share of undergraduate students who were 25 and older has dropped since 2011, and has fallen even more significantly since the 1990s.