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Note on Age Structure of College Students

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Iran Cassim Mohsenin
Iran Cassim Mohsenin*
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Faculty of Education, Pennsylvania State University
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During the past decade college student enrollment has encompassed increasing numbers of students older than the traditional age range of seventeen to twenty-three. A historical review of college student age suggests that this is not a new precedent and that students in the colonial colleges spanned a wide age range, from early adolescence to adults over thirty. This age span persisted in various forms at many institutions but finally compressed to the traditional age pattern for the most part, with the formation and growth of American high schools beginning in 1880. The following discussion of student age follows a rough chronological and geographic pattern beginning with New England colonial colleges and ending in the latter 19th century at midwestern state universities.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , Winter 1983 , pp. 491 - 498
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Copyright © 1983 by History of Education Society 

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