Average annual tuition and fees, total price, amount of aid, and net access price for full-time graduate and first-professional students and percentage of all students attending full time, by type of aid and program and institutional characteristics: 2003

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Table 48-1. Average annual tuition and fees, total price, amount of aid, and net access price for full-time graduate and first-professional students and percentage of all students attending full time, by type of aid and program and institutional characteristics: 2003–04

	Average for full-time students (including unaided students)
Characteristic	Tuition and fees	Total price¹	Total aid	Grants	Loans	Assistant- ships and other aid	Net access price (total price minus total aid)	Percent attending full time

Master’s degree students
Total	$11,500	$27,400	$14,500	$2,800	$9,500	$2,200	$13,000	20.6
Degree program
Business administration (M.B.A.)	16,000	33,500	15,400	2,700	11,600	1,100!	18,100	18.7
Education (any master’s)	7,900	22,300	11,500	1,600!	9,000	900!	10,700	11.2
Any other master’s degree	11,400	27,200	15,000	3,200	9,100	2,700	12,300	27.2
Selected fields of study
Humanities	10,500	26,400	15,200	4,100	8,600	2,500	11,200	27.3
Social/behavioral sciences	10,900	27,100	18,800	4,700!	9,700	4,400	8,300	34.2
Life and physical sciences	10,200	25,800	14,900	2,500!	7,000!	5,400!	10,900	22.5
Engineering/computer science/mathematics	12,800	28,100	14,800	5,600	3,700!	5,500	13,300	19.1
Institution type
Public	7,400	21,900	12,200	2,700	6,300	3,200	9,700	20.7
Private not-for-profit	17,400	34,100	17,700	3,300	13,200	1,200	16,400	19.3

Doctoral degree students
Total	14,400	33,300	23,400	8,300	7,600	7,500	10,000	48.8
Degree program
Ph.D. (except in education)	14,900	33,600	24,200	10,800	2,900	10,500	9,400	52.8
Education (any doctorate)²	10,700	27,900	14,100	5,100	4,600	4,500	13,700	19.2
Any other doctoral degree³	14,000	33,900	23,500	3,900	17,600	2,100	10,400	57.5
Selected fields of study
Humanities	13,400	30,400	16,700	7,800	2,600	6,300	13,700	39.0
Social/behavioral sciences	15,300	33,600	22,700	8,700	8,000	6,000	10,900	52.3
Life and physical sciences	14,700	34,800	26,100	12,100	2,000!	12,100	8,600	60.2
Engineering/computer science/mathematics	15,400	33,400	25,400	11,600	1,400!	12,400	8,000	51.8
Institution type
Public	10,000	28,600	21,800	8,100	5,700	8,000	6,800	46.2
Private not-for-profit	20,500	40,200	26,400	8,800	10,300	7,300	13,900	52.3

First-professional degree students
Total	16,700	36,500	26,900	2,800	23,300	800	9,600	78.1
Degree program
Medicine (M.D.)	17,100	40,400	31,600	2,900	27,400	1,200	8,800	91.6
Other health science degree	16,400	36,400	27,700	1,800!	25,100	800	8,700	89.7
Law (L.L.B. or J.D.)	17,000	34,700	24,000	3,300	20,200	600	10,700	76.1
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D.)	9,500!	23,900	11,500	5,000!	6,000!	500!	12,400	22.8
Institution type
Public	9,800	30,300	23,600	2,200	20,500	800	6,700	88.7
Private not-for-profit	22,600	41,900	29,800	3,300	25,700	800	12,200	70.8

! Interpret data with caution (estimates are unstable).
¹Total price (also known as the student budget) includes tuition and fees, books and materials, and living expenses.
²Ph.D. in education, Ed.D., or any other doctoral degree in which education is the field of study.
³Examples include D.B.A. (Doctor of Business Administration), D.F.A. (Doctor of Fine Arts), and D.P.A. (Doctor of Public Administration).
NOTE: Table is limited to students who attended for the full year at only one institution in 2003–04 to keep aid and price data consistent. Full-time means enrolled full time (according to the institution’s definition) for at least 9 months during the 2003–04 academic year; full-time enrollment does not preclude working as well. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2003–04 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:04).

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