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Digest of Education Statistics: 2006
Digest of Education Statistics: 2006

NCES 2007-017
July 2007


Table 214. Total number of institutions and fall enrollment in degree-granting institutions, by type and control of institution and percentage of minority enrollment: 2005
Minority percentage of total enrollment Total, all institution types Public institutions Not-for-profit institutions For-profit institutions
Total Doctoral, extensive1  Doctoral, intensive2  Master's3  Baccalaur-eate4  Special-ized5  2-year Total Doctoral, extensive1  Doctoral, intensive2  Master's3  Baccalaur-eate4  Special-ized5  2-year Total 4-year 2-year
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
All institutions                                    
Number of institutions 4,253 1,675 102 63 273 104 97 1,036 1,645 48 42 326 490 626 113 933 408 525
Total enrollment 17,487,475 13,021,834 2,735,547 915,694 2,471,344 356,342 358,678 6,184,229 3,454,692 690,379 333,613 1,197,426 753,336 436,416 43,522 1,010,949 750,645 260,304
U.S. citizens6  16,902,661 12,649,023 2,568,662 879,645 2,408,138 347,906 350,649 6,094,023 3,282,303 613,355 313,736 1,163,337 732,259 416,915 42,701 971,335 711,765 259,570
White 11,495,440 8,518,181 1,912,950 642,718 1,661,522 252,937 207,936 3,840,118 2,431,320 435,404 212,455 880,849 568,177 309,346 25,089 545,939 412,588 133,351
Minority 5,407,221 4,130,842 655,712 236,927 746,616 94,969 142,713 2,253,905 850,983 177,951 101,281 282,488 164,082 107,569 17,612 425,396 299,177 126,219
Black 2,214,561 1,580,352 208,196 115,647 338,477 53,065 38,619 826,348 397,329 52,117 41,110 141,119 106,793 48,654 7,536 236,880 169,620 67,260
Hispanic 1,881,975 1,525,588 184,827 65,723 243,662 23,834 77,505 930,037 221,660 43,248 30,314 86,412 31,099 25,631 4,956 134,727 88,238 46,489
Asian/Pacific Islander 1,134,382 881,937 240,976 46,486 139,112 14,011 19,556 421,796 209,078 79,479 28,227 48,344 22,027 28,044 2,957 43,367 33,695 9,672
American Indian/Alaska Native 176,303 142,965 21,713 9,071 25,365 4,059 7,033 75,724 22,916 3,107 1,630 6,613 4,163 5,240 2,163 10,422 7,624 2,798
Nonresident alien 584,814 372,811 166,885 36,049 63,206 8,436 8,029 90,206 172,389 77,024 19,877 34,089 21,077 19,501 821 39,614 38,880 734
90.0 percent or more
 minority enrollment
                                   
Number of institutions 163 58 0 3 21 4 3 27 72 0 1 3 40 18 10 33 12 21
Total enrollment 393,445 288,258 0 24,765 125,784 8,930 18,453 110,326 75,868 0 4,469 12,280 46,426 9,401 3,292 29,319 10,476 18,843
U.S. citizens6  388,289 284,237 0 24,139 123,360 8,876 18,392 109,470 74,831 0 4,469 12,118 45,654 9,298 3,292 29,221 10,446 18,775
Minority 370,664 269,991 0 23,360 116,920 8,534 17,710 103,467 72,820 0 4,456 11,332 44,899 8,951 3,182 27,853 9,944 17,909
                                     
75.0 to 89.9 percent
 minority enrollment
                                   
Number of institutions 195 71 0 3 8 6 5 49 32 0 0 5 6 10 11 92 29 63
Total enrollment 698,755 603,928 0 34,330 81,937 34,930 58,427 394,304 31,172 0 0 14,812 6,707 4,894 4,759 63,655 24,642 39,013
U.S. citizens6  678,043 584,630 0 31,836 79,297 32,075 56,779 384,643 30,478 0 0 14,621 6,318 4,829 4,710 62,935 24,081 38,854
Minority 572,445 494,425 0 27,217 68,010 28,198 50,953 320,047 25,566 0 0 12,093 5,624 3,943 3,906 52,454 20,122 32,332
                                     
50.0 to 74.9 percent
 minority enrollment
                                   
Number of institutions 458 164 10 2 19 5 6 122 83 1 2 14 9 42 15 211 97 114
Total enrollment 2,174,957 1,811,093 273,293 16,908 314,982 25,374 19,716 1,160,820 143,994 10,930 34,483 54,478 8,297 30,613 5,193 219,870 154,777 65,093
U.S. citizens6  2,096,169 1,746,451 255,345 15,766 297,936 24,388 19,052 1,133,964 138,464 9,957 33,238 52,508 8,115 29,500 5,146 211,254 146,426 64,828
Minority 1,320,890 1,098,045 160,881 10,160 183,311 16,449 12,748 714,496 88,395 9,843 17,738 33,794 4,959 18,588 3,473 134,450 93,737 40,713
                                     
25.0 to 49.9 percent
 minority enrollment
                                   
Number of institutions 1,116 441 25 16 61 11 23 305 360 24 20 79 72 138 27 315 156 159
Total enrollment 5,449,254 3,757,236 714,559 265,365 530,364 63,590 86,850 2,096,508 1,165,927 366,030 172,146 356,481 127,849 130,707 12,714 526,091 453,155 72,936
U.S. citizens6  5,230,995 3,648,269 668,695 251,887 517,927 62,334 84,357 2,063,069 1,083,559 317,357 160,701 345,503 122,703 124,771 12,524 499,167 426,391 72,776
Minority 1,907,707 1,342,779 234,879 89,445 194,916 19,977 34,726 768,836 381,547 109,632 58,512 123,787 43,160 41,518 4,938 183,381 156,112 27,269
                                     
10.0 to 24.9 percent
 minority enrollment
                                   
Number of institutions 1,324 542 53 27 94 30 43 295 603 22 15 139 191 211 25 179 88 91
Total enrollment 6,177,871 4,659,946 1,472,645 432,392 864,274 83,492 140,469 1,666,674 1,385,310 279,352 98,087 519,419 304,526 173,682 10,244 132,615 92,694 39,921
U.S. citizens6  5,967,403 4,518,626 1,383,484 417,985 846,332 82,712 137,714 1,650,399 1,318,328 252,981 91,746 503,623 295,565 164,420 9,993 130,449 90,586 39,863
Minority 1,060,829 797,386 238,968 77,176 145,057 13,072 24,494 298,619 238,824 55,481 18,689 84,214 48,375 30,391 1,674 24,619 18,117 6,502
                                     
Less than 10.0 percent
 minority enrollment
                                   
Number of institutions 997 399 14 12 70 48 17 238 495 1 4 86 172 207 25 103 26 77
Total enrollment 2,593,193 1,901,373 275,050 141,934 554,003 140,026 34,763 755,597 652,421 34,067 24,428 239,956 259,531 87,119 7,320 39,399 14,901 24,498
U.S. citizens6  2,541,762 1,866,810 261,138 138,032 543,286 137,521 34,355 752,478 636,643 33,060 23,582 234,964 253,904 84,097 7,036 38,309 13,835 24,474
Minority 174,686 128,216 20,984 9,569 38,402 8,739 2,082 48,440 43,831 2,995 1,886 17,268 17,065 4,178 439 2,639 1,145 1,494
1 Doctoral, extensive institutions are committed to graduate education through the doctorate, and award 50 or more doctor's degrees per year across at least 15 disciplines.
2 Doctoral, intensive institutions are committed to education through the doctorate, and award at least 10 doctor's degrees per year across 3 or more disciplines or at least 20 doctor's degrees overall.
3 Master's institutions offer a full range of baccalaureate programs and are committed to education through the master's degree. They award at least 20 master's degrees per year.
4 Baccalaureate institutions primarily emphasize undergraduate education.
5 Specialized 4-year institutions award degrees primarily in single fields of study, such as medicine, business, fine arts, theology, or engineering. Also, includes some institutions that have 4-year programs, but have not reported sufficient data to identify program category.
6 Includes resident aliens.
NOTE: Degree-granting institutions grant associate's or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Some institutions do not report separate enrollment data for each branch campus. For this reason, counts of institutions in this table are somewhat lower than the figures appearing in some other tables. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic origin.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2005 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2006. (This table was prepared August 2006.)