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VCCS Students: Who? What? Where, How & When?

Virginia Community College System Students
Fall Semester 2000

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A record number of students attended Virginia community colleges during the Fall 2000 semester. This report presents a series of charts that categorizes those 136,772 students into responses to three broad questions:

WHO: Who are the students? Demographics and enrollment patterns of last fall’s student body are described.
WHAT: What do they study? Student program areas and course offerings are profiled.

WHERE, HOW, and WHEN: Where, how, and when do they attend classes? Separate charts show enrollments in labs, off-site, evening courses, dual credit, etc.

The charts highlight once again that there are some important differences among colleges and their students. For Fall 2000, several systemwide trends continue. The growth of minority and traditional age students continues to outpace that of the total student body. The numbers of full-time and transfer students increased again, though at a lesser rate than in recent years. Students who include one or more distance learning courses in their schedules increased, as did those enrolled in dual credit courses.

Each chart displays statistics for each college, with the associated percentage for the VCCS as a whole represented by a vertical line.

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