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| Table 3. Number and percentage distribution of students enrolled at Title IV institutions, by control of institution, student level, level of institution, distance education status of student, and distance education status of institution: United States, fall 2021 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Student level, level of institution, distance education status of student, and distance education status of institution | All institutions | Public | Private | |||||||||
| Nonprofit | For-profit | |||||||||||
| Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | |||||
| All students | 19,036,612 | 100.0 | 13,655,528 | 100.0 | 4,126,289 | 100.0 | 1,254,795 | 100.0 | ||||
| Enrolled exclusively in distance education courses | 5,660,378 | 29.7 | 3,922,568 | 28.7 | 1,085,357 | 26.3 | 652,453 | 52.0 | ||||
| Exclusively distance education institutions | 503,799 | 2.6 | 76,907 | 0.6 | 192,115 | 4.7 | 234,777 | 18.7 | ||||
| Not exclusively distance education institutions | 5,156,579 | 27.1 | 3,845,661 | 28.2 | 893,242 | 21.6 | 417,676 | 33.3 | ||||
| Enrolled in some, but not all, distance education courses | 5,572,313 | 29.3 | 4,579,511 | 33.5 | 824,295 | 20.0 | 168,507 | 13.4 | ||||
| Not enrolled in any distance education courses | 7,803,921 | 41.0 | 5,153,449 | 37.7 | 2,216,637 | 53.7 | 433,835 | 34.6 | ||||
| Undergraduate | 15,825,026 | 100.0 | 12,056,637 | 100.0 | 2,739,384 | 100.0 | 1,029,005 | 100.0 | ||||
| 4-year | 10,765,884 | 68.0 | 7,466,861 | 61.9 | 2,698,840 | 98.5 | 600,183 | 58.3 | ||||
| Enrolled exclusively in distance education courses | 2,502,504 | 15.8 | 1,528,227 | 12.7 | 550,131 | 20.1 | 424,146 | 41.2 | ||||
| Exclusively distance education institutions | 323,304 | 2.0 | 57,729 | 0.5 | 129,838 | 4.7 | 135,737 | 13.2 | ||||
| Not exclusively distance education institutions | 2,179,200 | 13.8 | 1,470,498 | 12.2 | 420,293 | 15.3 | 288,409 | 28.0 | ||||
| Enrolled in some, but not all, distance education courses | 3,837,759 | 24.3 | 3,149,024 | 26.1 | 592,562 | 21.6 | 96,173 | 9.3 | ||||
| Not enrolled in any distance education courses | 4,425,621 | 28.0 | 2,789,610 | 23.1 | 1,556,147 | 56.8 | 79,864 | 7.8 | ||||
| 2-year | 4,777,305 | 30.2 | 4,530,048 | 37.6 | 33,231 | 1.2 | 214,026 | 20.8 | ||||
| Enrolled exclusively in distance education courses | 1,859,287 | 11.7 | 1,823,363 | 15.1 | 9,786 | 0.4 | 26,138 | 2.5 | ||||
| Exclusively distance education institutions | 5,187 | # | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,187 | 0.5 | ||||
| Not exclusively distance education institutions | 1,854,100 | 11.7 | 1,823,363 | 15.1 | 9,786 | 0.4 | 20,951 | 2.0 | ||||
| Enrolled in some, but not all, distance education courses | 1,202,972 | 7.6 | 1,151,807 | 9.6 | 5,823 | 0.2 | 45,342 | 4.4 | ||||
| Not enrolled in any distance education courses | 1,715,046 | 10.8 | 1,554,878 | 12.9 | 17,622 | 0.6 | 142,546 | 13.9 | ||||
| Less-than-2-year | 281,837 | 1.8 | 59,728 | 0.5 | 7,313 | 0.3 | 214,796 | 20.9 | ||||
| Enrolled exclusively in distance education courses | 4,139 | # | 283 | # | 686 | # | 3,170 | 0.3 | ||||
| Exclusively distance education institutions | 341 | # | 0 | 0 | 341 | # | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Not exclusively distance education institutions | 3,798 | # | 283 | # | 345 | # | 3,170 | 0.3 | ||||
| Enrolled in some, but not all, distance education courses | 16,082 | 0.1 | 176 | # | 287 | # | 15,619 | 1.5 | ||||
| Not enrolled in any distance education courses | 261,616 | 1.7 | 59,269 | 0.5 | 6,340 | 0.2 | 196,007 | 19.0 | ||||
| Graduate | 3,211,586 | 100.0 | 1,598,891 | 100.0 | 1,386,905 | 100.0 | 225,790 | 100.0 | ||||
| Enrolled exclusively in distance education courses | 1,294,448 | 40.3 | 570,695 | 35.7 | 524,754 | 37.8 | 198,999 | 88.1 | ||||
| Exclusively distance education institutions | 174,967 | 5.4 | 19,178 | 1.2 | 61,936 | 4.5 | 93,853 | 41.6 | ||||
| Not exclusively distance education institutions | 1,119,481 | 34.9 | 551,517 | 34.5 | 462,818 | 33.4 | 105,146 | 46.6 | ||||
| Enrolled in some, but not all, distance education courses | 515,500 | 16.1 | 278,504 | 17.4 | 225,623 | 16.3 | 11,373 | 5.0 | ||||
| Not enrolled in any distance education courses | 1,401,638 | 43.6 | 749,692 | 46.9 | 636,528 | 45.9 | 15,418 | 6.8 | ||||
# Rounds to zero.
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. 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 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, Fall 2021, Institutional Characteristics component (provisional data) and Spring 2022, Fall Enrollment component (provisional data).
