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Source of Students Enrolled in Agricultural Colleges

National Research Council, Beltsville, Maryland

ABSTRACT

A recent report by the Committee on Educational Policy in Agriculture, National Research Council, gives interesting facts on farm-nonfarm origin of students enrolled in colleges of agriculture. The data came from 11 institutions which were distributed geographically over the United States and in terms of their State's population that is rural. The survey covered 8,800 undergraduates, or 27% of all undergraduates enrolled in colleges of agriculture in the fall of 1963.

The data show that 47% of the enrolled students came from farms and 53% from non-farms—18% from towns with populations up to 5,000; 17% from towns 5 to 25,000; 9% from cities 25-100,000, and 9% from cities over 100,000 and suburbs of such cities. The proportion of students from nonfarm homes is expected to increase gradually in the future. States with a larger percentage of nonfarm population had a higher percentage of nonfarm students enrolled in their colleges of agriculture.