Table 2. Number and percentage distribution of students enrolled at Title IV institutions, by student level, enrollment status, gender, and race/ethnicity: United States, fall 2017 | |||||||||
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Enrollment status, gender, and race/ethnicity | All students | Undergraduate | Graduate | ||||||
Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | ||||
All students | 20,151,151 | 100.0 | 17,145,826 | 100.0 | 3,005,325 | 100.0 | |||
Enrollment status | |||||||||
Full-time | 12,354,139 | 61.3 | 10,649,661 | 62.1 | 1,704,478 | 56.7 | |||
Part-time | 7,797,012 | 38.7 | 6,496,165 | 37.9 | 1,300,847 | 43.3 | |||
Gender | |||||||||
Men | 8,711,692 | 43.2 | 7,491,587 | 43.7 | 1,220,105 | 40.6 | |||
Women | 11,439,459 | 56.8 | 9,654,239 | 56.3 | 1,785,220 | 59.4 | |||
Race/ethnicity | |||||||||
American Indian or Alaska Native | 136,864 | 0.7 | 124,206 | 0.7 | 12,658 | 0.4 | |||
Asian | 1,234,293 | 6.1 | 1,040,999 | 6.1 | 193,294 | 6.4 | |||
Black or African American | 2,493,455 | 12.4 | 2,160,284 | 12.6 | 333,171 | 11.1 | |||
Hispanic or Latino | 3,486,688 | 17.3 | 3,231,754 | 18.8 | 254,934 | 8.5 | |||
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 51,038 | 0.3 | 45,560 | 0.3 | 5,478 | 0.2 | |||
White | 10,154,302 | 50.4 | 8,642,011 | 50.4 | 1,512,291 | 50.3 | |||
Two or more races | 681,069 | 3.4 | 610,405 | 3.6 | 70,664 | 2.4 | |||
Race/ethnicity unknown | 913,446 | 4.5 | 716,416 | 4.2 | 197,030 | 6.6 | |||
Nonresident1 | 999,996 | 5.0 | 574,191 | 3.3 | 425,805 | 14.2 |
1The use of "Nonresident" is for reporting purposes only and does not reflect a change in the collection of data for this category.
NOTE: Title IV institutions are those with a written agreement with the U.S. Department of Education that allows the institution to participate in any of the Title IV federal student financial assistance programs. United States includes the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The four U.S. service academies that are not Title IV eligible are included in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) universe because they are federally funded and open to the public and are included in this table. Students who self-identify with more than one race are included in the Two or more races category. Students who are in the United States on a visa or temporary basis, and who are not authorized to remain indefinitely, are included in the Nonresident category regardless of race or ethnicity. Students of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity are included in the Hispanic or Latino category regardless of race and are not included in the race categories. Percentages in the columns of this table use the corresponding count in the "All students" row as the denominator. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Definitions for terms used in this table may be found in the collection year’s archived downloadable glossary located at https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data/annual-survey-forms-packages-archived?year=2017.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS, Spring 2018, Fall Enrollment component (final data).