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Table 2. Number of first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students in the fall 2020 cohort, number still enrolled in fall 2021, and retention rates at Title IV institutions, by enrollment status, level of institution, degree-granting status, and control of institution: United States, fall 2020 and fall 2021
Level of institution, degree-granting status, and control of institution	Full-time			Part-time
	Adjusted cohort, fall 2020	Still enrolled fall 2021	Retention rate	Adjusted cohort, fall 2020	Still enrolled fall 2021	Retention rate
4-year	1,481,435	1,194,249	80.6	64,706	31,512	48.7
Public	1,003,257	810,443	80.8	42,711	22,393	52.4
Private nonprofit	457,843	371,269	81.1	13,950	5,892	42.2
Private for-profit	20,335	12,537	61.7	8,045	3,227	40.1
2-year	519,732	319,751	61.5	273,329	116,426	42.6
Public	468,849	286,795	61.2	270,188	114,536	42.4
Private nonprofit	7,867	5,233	66.5	400	156	39.0
Private for-profit	43,016	27,723	64.4	2,741	1,734	63.3
Degree-granting	501,478	306,835	61.2	269,385	113,607	42.2
Public	459,699	280,459	61.0	267,357	112,530	42.1
Private nonprofit	6,829	4,459	65.3	385	144	37.4
Private for-profit	34,950	21,917	62.7	1,643	933	56.8

Non-degree-granting	18,254	12,916	70.8	3,944	2,819	71.5
Public	9,150	6,336	69.2	2,831	2,006	70.9
Private nonprofit	1,038	774	74.6	15	12	80.0
Private for-profit	8,066	5,806	72.0	1,098	801	73.0
Less-than-2-year	59,679	42,992	72.0	17,763	12,044	67.8
Public	9,936	7,022	70.7	9,365	6,169	65.9
Private nonprofit	1,924	1,506	78.3	15	12	80.0
Private for-profit	47,819	34,464	72.1	8,383	5,863	69.9

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. For 4-year institutions, retention rate is the percentage of first-time bachelor’s (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduates from the previous fall who are again enrolled in the current fall. For all other institutions, retention rate is the percentage of first-time degree/certificate-seeking students from the previous fall who either reenrolled or successfully completed their program by the current fall. Enrollment status (full-time or part-time) was determined by the institutions in fall 2020, but the fall 2020 adjusted cohort and the number of students in the cohort still enrolled in fall 2021 were both reported during the spring 2022 data collection. Definitions for terms used in this table may be found in the IPEDS online glossary located at https://surveys.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/public/glossary. The glossary is primarily focused on terms used in the current IPEDS collection and may not reflect the definitions in effect when the data in this table were collected.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS, Spring 2022, Fall Enrollment component (provisional data).

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