New York, NY- This report presents more than 100 tables of data exploring how full time college students in the United States view distance learning, how many courses that they have taken and plan to take, and how they view their level of preparedness for DL courses.
The data in the report is based on a representative sample of more than 400 full time college students in the United States. Data is broken out by 16 criteria including gender, grade point average, major field of study, income level of students and type, size, and mean SAT acceptance score of colleges, among other variables. The report is designed to give college administrators, educational researchers and others detailed demographic data on student use and perception of distance learning. Just a few of the report's many findings are that:
• More than 77% of the students in the sample attended colleges that offer online or other forms of distance learning classes.
• Only a shade more than 52% of the private college students in the sample attend colleges that offer distance learning while nearly 87% of the public college students attend them.
• Students that grew up in rural areas were more likely to have taken a DL course than those from cities or suburbs, while those in the Midwest and West were more likely than those in the South and Northeast to have taken a DL course.
• 19.34% of the students in the sample say that they would never take a DL course in the near future and another 27.74% say that it is unlikely that they would.
• Many students are on the fence; nearly a quarter of all students in colleges with a mean SAT score of less than 1800 said that they would possibly take a DL course in the future, forming a large block of potential DL students.
• Students that grew up in the West averaged 9.85 DL credits while those from the Northeast, only 0.88.
• Students in the fine and performing arts and Education were more likely than those in other subject areas to feel that they needed some tech help to get up to speed to take a DL course.
The 50 page report is available for $98.00. For further information view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.
