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HIGHER EDUCATION ENROLLMENTS 83 DOCTORAL INSTITUTION ENROLLMENTS: UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE During the 1960s and 1970s, graduate education assumed a greater role within doctoral institutions. Graduate enrollments, as a share of total enrollments, rose from 20 percent in 1958 to 30 percent by 1976, remaining steady during the 1980s. Figure 2-80: Undergraduate and Graduate Enrollments in Doctoral Institutions Figure 2-81: Distribution of Undergraduate and Graduate Enrollments in Doctoral Institutions DEFINITION OF TERMS: Undergraduate enrollments include all full-time students who are working toward a bachelors or associate degree, or a technician certificate, plus a full-time equivalent of part-time students as reported by institutions; excluded are students of unclassified enrollment status. Graduate enrollments include all full-time students (plus a full-time-equivalent of part-time students) who hold the bachelors or equivalent degree, and are working toward an advanced degree, including a first professional degree. Doctoral institutions are higher education institutions that the have granted an average of 10 or more Ph.D. degrees per year in the natural sciences or engineering over the past two decades; they include 69 private institutions and 116 public institutions. SOURCE: National Science Foundation, Division of Policy Research and Analysis. Database: CASPAR. Some of the data within this database are estimates, incorporated where there are discontinuities within data series or gaps in data collection. Primary data source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS): Fall Enrollment in Institutions of Higher Education.