Enrollment at Title IV institutions, by student level, attendance status, gender, and race/ethnicity: United States, fall 2006 | |||||||||
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Total | Undergraduate | Graduate | First professional | ||||||
Attendance status, gender, and race/ethnicity |
Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | |
Total students | 18,205,474 | 100.0 | 15,630,574 | 100.0 | 2,231,4541 | 100.0 | 343,446 | 100.0 | |
Full time | 11,316,499 | 62.2 | 9,929,944 | 63.5 | 1,077,397 | 48.3 | 309,158 | 90.0 | |
Part time | 6,888,975 | 37.8 | 5,700,630 | 36.5 | 1,154,057 | 51.7 | 34,288 | 10.0 | |
Men | 7,715,801 | 42.4 | 6,654,666 | 42.6 | 887,327 | 39.8 | 173,808 | 50.6 | |
Women | 10,489,673 | 57.6 | 8,975,908 | 57.4 | 1,344,127 | 60.2 | 169,638 | 49.4 | |
White, non-Hispanic | 10,897,048 | 59.9 | 9,405,394 | 60.2 | 1,269,866 | 56.9 | 221,788 | 64.6 | |
Black, non-Hispanic | 2,207,274 | 12.1 | 1,965,454 | 12.6 | 217,322 | 9.7 | 24,498 | 7.1 | |
Hispanic | 1,897,258 | 10.4 | 1,762,753 | 11.3 | 117,882 | 5.3 | 16,623 | 4.8 | |
Asian/Pacific Islander | 1,081,628 | 5.9 | 934,987 | 6.0 | 105,034 | 4.7 | 41,607 | 12.1 | |
American Indian/Alaska Native | 174,936 | 1.0 | 159,777 | 1.0 | 12,818 | 0.6 | 2,341 | 0.7 | |
Race/ethnicity unknown | 1,346,605 | 7.4 | 1,076,176 | 6.9 | 242,126 | 10.9 | 28,303 | 8.2 | |
Nonresident alien | 600,725 | 3.3 | 326,033 | 2.1 | 266,406 | 11.9 | 8,286 | 2.4 |
1 Includes 249 students enrolled in graduate-level courses reported by eight 2-year institutions.
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2007, Enrollment component.