STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

Information relative to students in higher educational institutions was secured from 77 institutions. The departments included are the following: Academic, engineering and technological, medicine, law, postgraduate, pharmacy, theology, dentistry, veterinary. The form used in collecting the data is shown on page 686.

The tables which follow show, by sex, for each of the departments covered, the number of students for whom information was secured. The data are presented by general nativity and race of student. The first table shows the males and the second the females.

TABLE 51.-Number of male students in higher educational institutions for whom information was secured, by department and by general nativity and race of student.

TABLE 51.-Number of male students in higher educational institutions for whom information was secured, by department and by general nativity and race of studentContinued.

TABLE 52.-Number of female students in higher educational institutions for whom information was secured, by department and by general nativity and race of student.

Information was secured from 25,779 males and 7,103 females. The number in each department is as follows:

The table which follows shows the total number of males and the total number of females for whom information was secured, and the per cent of distribution. The data are presented by general nativity and race of student and the percentages indicate what proportion the students of each race form of the total number for whom information was secured:

TABLE 53.-Race distribution of students in higher educational institutions, by sex.

TABLE 53.-Race distribution of students in higher educational institutions, by sex-Con.

Of the 32,887 students for whom information was secured, 29,521, or 89.8 per cent of the total, were native-born, and 3,366, or 10.2 per cent, were foreign-born. Immigrants of the second generation (native-born of foreign father) number 8,304, or 25.3 per cent of the total.