Is it possible to separate spending on undergraduate and graduate education?
No. Institutional accounting and reporting systems are typically not set up to make this separation. All metrics are presented in aggregate averages, which means that cross-subsidies from undergraduate to graduate education or from low-cost to high-cost disciplines are not shown. It is possible, though, to compare spending trends across institutions that have a similar split between undergraduate and graduate enrollments and degree completions. DCP hopes to focus more on issues of trends in cross-subsidies in subsequent research, working with samples of states and institutions.
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