Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1903 — Our Big Universities. [ARTICLE]

Our Big Universities.

Colleges and universities grow faster than ever. The growth was shown chiefly by the larger and wealthier ones, the smaller ones remaining star tlonary or falling away. Columbia passed Harvard in students and now leads the list, the figures being 5,865 and 5,782. Chicago made another leap and is third with 4,723. California with 3,848 is running almost neck and neck with Michigan with 3,843. Minnesota’s count is 3,665 and Cornell has reached 3,469. Pratt holds eighth place with 3,183, and Yale has jumped to the ninth from the eleventh with 3,154. Then comes a close race of three—Wisconsin, 2,986; Northwestern, 2,921 and Illinois, 2,905. Pennsylvania is thirteenth with 2,736, Nebraska, fourteenth with 2,398, New York fifteenth with 2,200 and Syracuse sixteenth with 2,065.