Table 234.

Number of degree-granting institutions and enrollment in these institutions, by size, type, and control of institution: Fall 2007

Type and control of institution	Enrollment size
	Total	Under 200	200 to 499	500 to 999	1,000 to 2,499	2,500 to 4,999	5,000 to 9,999	10,000 to 19,999	20,000 to 29,999	30,000 or more
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Number of institutions
Total	4,339	486	649	656	884	650	503	321	130	60
Research university, very high1	96	0	0	0	1	0	10	23	34	28
Research university, high2	102	0	0	0	2	7	14	43	27	9
Doctoral/research university3	79	0	1	3	7	14	21	22	10	1
Master's4	653	3	9	30	125	197	178	89	15	7
Baccalaureate5	866	35	88	214	352	125	32	13	4	3
Specialized institutions6	875	272	260	168	121	44	7	2	1	0
2-year	1,668	176	291	241	276	263	241	129	39	12
Public	1,682	9	50	96	318	378	396	267	115	53
Research university, very high1	63	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	31	25
Research university, high2	75	0	0	0	1	1	8	33	24	8
Doctoral/research university3	27	0	0	0	0	1	5	16	5	0
Master's4	264	0	0	0	10	48	116	72	12	6
Baccalaureate5	177	0	1	19	57	60	24	10	4	2
Specialized institutions6	47	2	9	8	17	9	2	0	0	0
Medical or other health	28	0	2	4	12	8	2	0	0	0
Other specialized	19	2	7	4	5	1	0	0	0	0
2-year	1,029	7	40	69	233	259	241	129	39	12
Private	2,657	477	599	560	566	272	107	54	15	7
Research university, very high1	33	0	0	0	1	0	10	16	3	3
Research university, high2	27	0	0	0	1	6	6	10	3	1
Doctoral/research university3	52	0	1	3	7	13	16	6	5	1
Master's4	389	3	9	30	115	149	62	17	3	1
Baccalaureate5	689	35	87	195	295	65	8	3	0	1
Specialized institutions6	828	270	251	160	104	35	5	2	1	0
Art, music, or design	114	16	32	19	32	11	2	2	0	0
Business and management	113	27	26	31	17	9	2	0	1	0
Engineering or technology	99	15	35	36	7	6	0	0	0	0
Medical or other health	153	45	48	31	24	5	0	0	0	0
Theological	287	158	89	29	9	1	1	0	0	0
Other specialized	62	9	21	14	15	3	0	0	0	0
2-year	639	169	251	172	43	4	0	0	0	0
Enrollment of institutions
Total	18,248,128	52,683	219,893	477,860	1,479,370	2,321,002	3,544,995	4,474,428	3,187,615	2,490,282
Research university, very high1	2,442,062	0	0	0	2,133	0	73,631	345,691	880,339	1,140,268
Research university, high2	1,725,294	0	0	0	4,426	27,468	96,750	620,583	653,573	322,494
Doctoral/research university3	987,609	0	220	2,423	12,143	54,139	167,121	284,214	242,469	224,880
Master's4	4,050,638	270	3,271	23,718	235,716	702,391	1,252,212	1,227,339	365,952	239,769
Baccalaureate5	1,766,508	3,956	31,779	160,503	564,750	411,722	202,591	170,967	95,654	124,586
Specialized institutions6	658,087	28,310	85,445	119,239	189,303	146,481	45,124	22,309	21,876	0
2-year	6,617,930	20,147	99,178	171,977	470,899	978,801	1,707,566	1,803,325	927,752	438,285
Public	13,490,780	1,069	17,803	75,012	559,544	1,389,996	2,820,552	3,745,935	2,825,373	2,055,496
Research university, very high1	1,958,392	0	0	0	0	0	0	117,354	808,014	1,033,024
Research university, high2	1,421,682	0	0	0	2,299	4,560	59,041	484,083	583,379	288,320
Doctoral/research university3	381,309	0	0	0	0	4,933	40,896	215,254	120,226	0
Master's4	2,531,979	0	0	0	19,164	178,444	849,116	990,892	290,348	204,015
Baccalaureate5	795,513	0	496	16,188	95,449	208,415	152,432	135,027	95,654	91,852
Specialized institutions6	77,786	182	3,327	5,601	30,354	26,821	11,501	0	0	0
Medical or other health	60,636	0	893	2,743	21,285	24,214	11,501	0	0	0
Other specialized	17,150	182	2,434	2,858	9,069	2,607	0	0	0	0
2-year	6,324,119	887	13,980	53,223	412,278	966,823	1,707,566	1,803,325	927,752	438,285
Private	4,757,348	51,614	202,090	402,848	919,826	931,006	724,443	728,493	362,242	434,786
Research university, very high1	483,670	0	0	0	2,133	0	73,631	228,337	72,325	107,244
Research university, high2	303,612	0	0	0	2,127	22,908	37,709	136,500	70,194	34,174
Doctoral/research university3	606,300	0	220	2,423	12,143	49,206	126,225	68,960	122,243	224,880
Master's4	1,518,659	270	3,271	23,718	216,552	523,947	403,096	236,447	75,604	35,754
Baccalaureate5	970,995	3,956	31,283	144,315	469,301	203,307	50,159	35,940	0	32,734
Specialized institutions6	580,301	28,128	82,118	113,638	158,949	119,660	33,623	22,309	21,876	0
Art, music, or design	156,214	1,783	11,011	13,852	52,952	39,191	15,116	22,309	0	0
Business and management	126,004	2,580	9,053	22,053	25,340	31,800	13,302	0	21,876	0
Engineering or technology	67,172	1,270	11,856	24,584	9,993	19,469	0	0	0	0
Medical or other health	97,515	4,597	15,688	22,228	38,581	16,421	0	0	0	0
Theological	85,290	16,986	26,618	20,703	12,754	3,024	5,205	0	0	0
Other specialized	48,106	912	7,892	10,218	19,329	9,755	0	0	0	0
2-year	293,811	19,260	85,198	118,754	58,621	11,978	0	0	0	0

1 Research universities with a very high level of research activity.

2 Research universities with a high level of research activity.

3 Institutions that award at least 20 doctor's degrees per year, but did not have a high level of research activity.

4 Institutions that award at least 50 master's degrees per year.

5 Institutions that primarily emphasize undergraduate education. Also includes institutions classified as 4-year under the IPEDS system, which had been classified as 2-year in the Carnegie system because they primarily award associate's degrees.

6 Special-focus 4-year institutions award degrees primarily in single fields of study, such as medicine, business, fine arts, theology, and engineering.

NOTE: Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Relative levels of research activity for research universities were determined by an analysis of research and development expenditures, science and engineering research staffing, and doctoral degrees conferred, by field. Further information on the research index ranking may be obtained from http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/classifications/index.asp?key=798#related.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2007 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2008. (This table was prepared August 2009.)