Analyses
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
The Growing Imbalance
April 2008 (PDF)Recent trends in postsecondary education finance.
Issue Brief #1: Who Pays for Higher Education?
Changing Patterns in Cost, Price, and Subsidies
April 2008 (PDF)
To understand why tuitions are increasing at institutions of higher education, policymakers need to look at the relationships between and among cost, price and subsidy. This brief explains how to understand those relationships, what the trend data show at a national level, places to go for more information, and questions to ask.
Issue Brief #2: Metrics for Improving Cost Accountability
April 2008 (PDF)
The funding squeeze facing much of American public higher education is neither short-term, nor small. To the contrary, the gaps between funding and the public need to increase access and degree attainment are large and growing. Meeting the educational requirements of the future will require new money, at a level that will not be forthcoming unless policymakers and the public are convinced that colleges and university leaders are serious about managing costs effectively.