During recent years there has developed an increasing general interest in the curricula of home economics in colleges. The American Home Economics Association, wishing to find a basis for working toward greater uniformity in nomenclature and content of courses, authorized in 1920 the making of a study of the work being given in institutions of collegiate rank. The investigation was apportioned to the regions into which the association was divided at that time, and the part of the study here reported deals with the Southern region, embracing the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. West Virginia was later included, because it had been omitted from the region to which it was originally assigned. In this Southern territory, questionnaires were sent to eighty-six institutions; from these forty-six replies were received-a percentage of 53.5. Of the eighty-six colleges, twenty-five were ranked as A grade in 1922 (Bulletin No. 30, United States Bureau of Education, 1922), and from these institutions twenty-one replies were received-a percentage of 84. Four replies stated that the institutions replying did not give a major course in home economics; hence, the number of replies used herein is reduced to seventeen. Of the four-year colleges not ranked as A grade in 1922, twenty-five replied; of these, sixteen sent reports that were especially valuable. Although the information given in replies was sometimes supplemented from the official bulletins of the institutions in question, no institution was included in the study unless it had manifested its interest by giving a usable report. The authors are greatly indebted to the members of all home economics departments whose cooperation has made the study possible. The questions asked fell under two heads-(1) general statements regarding the entire home economics department, and (2) specific