The financing of public junior colleges in Texas

The purpose of this study is to solve the following problems: 1. What were the sources of financial support in the public junior colleges included in this study? 2. What were the current educational expenditures for the different phases of the school program? 3. What was the cost per student semester-credit hour of general control, instruction, and current educational expenditure for the public junior colleges included in this investigation? 4. What was the cost of education in the public junior colleges of Texas compared with junior college costs as revealed by other studies? 5. What was the instructional salary cost per student semester-credit hour in each institution? 6. What was the instructional-salary cost per student semester-credit hour for each subject offered in the public junior colleges? The data upon which this study is based were secured from twenty-one of the twenty-three junior colleges in Texas that are publicly-supported. Nineteen of these institutions are municipal or district junior colleges, one is a county-unit, and one is a state junior college operated as a branch of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College