Analyses/Reports
Delta Project Data
The Delta Project has organized data on operating spending and revenues into aggregate measures of costs per student and costs per degree/certificate produced, organized into Carnegie classifications separating public and private nonprofit institutions.
Delta Project Reports
Trends in College Spending 1998-2008
July 2010
Where does the money come from? Where does it go? What does it buy?
- Full Report (PDF)
- News Release (PDF)
Trends in College Spending
January 2009
Where does the money come from? Where does it go? What does it buy?
- Full Report (PDF)
- Executive Summary (PDF)
- Presentation Summary (PDF)
- Recommendations for Action (PDF)
- Frequently Asked Questions
- State Data
Delta Project Presentations
Improving Accountability for Costs in Postsecondary Education (PowerPoint)
Jane V. Wellman
University of Louisiana System Education Forum on Access to Success
March 27, 2008
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Top-line Findings From Analysis of Revenue and Expenditure Trends (PowerPoint)
Jane V. Wellman
ACE_SARA Research Group
February 29, 2008
Washington, DC
Reports From Other Sources
The Higher Education Funding Disconnect: Spending More, Getting Less, by Jane V. Wellman for the November-December 2008 issue of Change Magazine.
One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008 (PDF), by the PEW Center on the States, is a trend report on spending for corrections, which includes a snapshot of trends in spending for higher education (declining) compared to trends in spending on corrections (increasing).