CHAPTER XLI. COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS SCHOOLS. Reports received by this Bureau for the scholastic year ending June, 1903, show that 4,917 educational institutions of various grades had 240,697 students pursuing commercial or business studies. The 520 business schools and colleges reporting had 137,247 of these students, while 76,794 were found in 3,213 public high schools. The distribution of the students by sex among the five different classes of institutions is shown in the following summary: The enrollment of students in business schools and in commercial courses of other institutions exhibits wide fluctuations from year to year. Such enrollment in public high schools reached the high-water mark in 1901, while the regular business schools recorded the greatest attendance in 1902. The following table is a summary of the number of students in commercial studies reported each year from 1889-90 to 1901-2: Table 1 shows the number of institutions of all grades in each State in which commercial and business studies were taught and the number of students in such studies. Table 2 gives this information concerning universities and colleges, public and private normal schools. Table 3 in the same manner relates to public and private high schools. Tables 4, 5, and 6 summarize all the statistics collected from the 520 regular business and commercial schools in each State. The statistics of these schools will be found in detail in Table 11. Tables 7 and 8 show the number of public high schools reporting regular business courses and the number of students in such courses in each State, and also the number of schools in which bookkeeping, commercial geography, and commercial law are taught, and the number of students in each of these branches. Tables 9 and 10 summarize like statistics of private high schools, academies, and seminaries. TABLE 1.-Number of institutions of all grades in which commercial and business studies were taught and number of students in such studies in 1901-2. |