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The number of students enrolled in institutions of higher education (undergraduate courses, graduate schools, junior colleges, technical colleges, etc.) has been showing a consistent growth during the last 15 years, reaching 2,137,000 persons in 1975.
Of these students in 1975, university students numbered 1,734,000 (including the students of graduate schools, advanced courses, short-term courses, etc.), 2.8 times the 1960 level, and junior college students numbered 354,000 (including the students in advanced courses, short-term courses, etc.), 4.2 times the 1960 level, for a total of 2,088,000 or 2.9 times the 1960 level.
The proportion of private school students in the total enrollment in institutions of higher education rose from 66.0% in 1960 to 77.4% in 1975. The proportion is rising year by year both among university students and junior college students, reaching 76% and 91% respectively in 1975, thus suggesting a large weight borne by private schools in the quantitative expansion of higher education.
The proportion of female students in the total enrollment in institutions of higher education grew from 20% in 1960 to 3l.6% in 1975 as a whole, from 13.7% to 21.2% at the university level and from 67.5% to 86.2% at the junior college level.
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