Enrollment at Title IV institutions, by student level, attendance status, gender, and race/ethnicity: United States, fall 2009 | ||||||
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Total | Undergraduate | Graduate1 | ||||
Attendance status, gender, and race/ethnicity | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent |
Total students | 20,966,826 | 100.0 | 18,104,116 | 100.0 | 2,862,710 | 100.0 |
Full time | 13,163,220 | 62.8 | 11,583,618 | 64.0 | 1,579,602 | 55.2 |
Part time | 7,803,606 | 37.2 | 6,520,498 | 36.0 | 1,283,108 | 44.8 |
Men | 8,952,577 | 42.7 | 7,778,470 | 43.0 | 1,174,107 | 41.0 |
Women | 12,014,249 | 57.3 | 10,325,646 | 57.0 | 1,688,603 | 59.0 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 196,551 | 0.9 | 180,195 | 1.0 | 16,356 | 0.6 |
Asian, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander | 1,209,783 | 5.8 | 1,041,541 | 5.8 | 168,242 | 5.9 |
Black or African American | 2,752,664 | 13.1 | 2,455,913 | 13.6 | 296,751 | 10.4 |
Hispanic or Latino | 2,404,463 | 11.5 | 2,244,847 | 12.4 | 159,616 | 5.6 |
White | 11,760,414 | 56.1 | 10,172,501 | 56.2 | 1,587,913 | 55.5 |
Two or more races2 | 89,556 | 0.4 | 83,745 | 0.5 | 5,811 | 0.2 |
Race/ethnicity unknown | 1,871,783 | 8.9 | 1,549,317 | 8.6 | 322,466 | 11.3 |
Nonresident alien | 681,612 | 3.3 | 376,057 | 2.1 | 305,555 | 10.7 |
1 Includes one student enrolled in graduate-level courses at one 2-year institution.
2 Two or more races was an optional reporting category in IPEDS 2009-10, and 1,931 institutions reported an enrollment of 89,556 students of Two or more races (0.4 percent of the 20,966,826 total students) using this option. The figures reported here should not be considered representative of the total number of individuals who could be classified into Two or more races.
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 2010, Enrollment component.