Masonry Magazine September 2005 Page. 30
Education
New College Sets Out to Make Its Mark
By Jennie Farnsworth
According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), in the 2002-2003 academic year, the estimated number of high school graduates totaled three million. That same year, college enrollment hit a record high of 16.1 million at the 4,168 accredited U.S. institutions offering degrees at the associate degree level or above.
The 2005-2006 academic year is already proving that it's going to have its own set of interesting statistics, one of which will be easy for NCES to compute. Under the column titled "Number of building trade colleges offering degrees," there will be a single number "1." That's because, in August 2005, the American College of the Building Arts (ACBA) opened its doors with the first and only degreed building trade program in the United States, offering associate and bachelor's degrees in architectural stone, masonry, plaster working, carpentry, timber framing and omamental ironwork.
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE
BUILDING ARTS
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