National Center for Education Statistics

Number and percentage distribution of students enrolled at Title IV institutions, by degree-granting status, enrollment status, level of institution, control of institution, and other selected characteristics: United States, fall 2016
Level of institution, control of institution, student level, gender, and race/ethnicity		All institutions			Degree-granting							Non-degree-granting
		All students	Percent		All students	Percent	Full-time	Percent	Part-time	Percent		All students	Percent	Full-time	Percent	Part-time	Percent
All students		20,230,012	100		19,846,904	100	12,125,314	100	7,721,590	100		383,108	100	287,448	100	95,660	100
Level of institution
4-year		13,754,771	68		13,754,486	69.3	9,815,967	81	3,938,519	51		285	0.1	262	0.1	23	#
2-year		6,207,833	30.7		6,092,418	30.7	2,309,347	19	3,783,071	49		115,415	30.1	84,434	29.4	30,981	32.4
Less-than-2-year1		267,408	1.3		†	†	†	†	†	†		267,408	69.8	202,752	70.5	64,656	67.6
Control of institution
Public		14,695,538	72.6		14,585,840	73.5	8,327,379	68.7	6,258,461	81.1		109,698	28.6	58,379	20.3	51,319	53.6
Private nonprofit		4,097,022	20.3		4,078,956	20.6	3,058,855	25.2	1,020,101	13.2		18,066	4.7	16,697	5.8	1,369	1.4
Private for-profit		1,437,452	7.1		1,182,108	6	739,080	6.1	443,028	5.7		255,344	66.7	212,372	73.9	42,972	44.9
Student level
Undergraduate		17,257,536	85.3		16,874,649	85	10,430,068	86	6,444,581	83.5		382,887	99.9	287,250	99.9	95,637	100
Graduate		2,972,476	14.7		2,972,255	15	1,695,246	14	1,277,009	16.5		221	0.1	198	0.1	23	#
Gender
Men		8,781,460	43.4		8,638,422	43.5	5,472,798	45.1	3,165,624	41		143,038	37.3	103,183	35.9	39,855	41.7
Women		11,448,552	56.6		11,208,482	56.5	6,652,516	54.9	4,555,966	59		240,070	62.7	184,265	64.1	55,805	58.3
Race/ethnicity
American Indian or Alaska Native		140,777	0.7		135,843	0.7	77,360	0.6	58,483	0.8		4,934	1.3	2,473	0.9	2,461	2.6
Asian		1,210,474	6		1,198,018	6	795,428	6.6	402,590	5.2		12,456	3.3	9,571	3.3	2,885	3
Black or African American		2,516,686	12.4		2,439,133	12.3	1,385,963	11.4	1,053,170	13.6		77,553	20.2	61,774	21.5	15,779	16.5
Hispanic or Latino		3,363,336	16.6		3,274,190	16.5	1,762,823	14.5	1,511,367	19.6		89,146	23.3	69,936	24.3	19,210	20.1
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander		51,944	0.3		50,124	0.3	28,486	0.2	21,638	0.3		1,820	0.5	1,393	0.5	427	0.4
White		10,317,588	51		10,145,367	51.1	6,327,009	52.2	3,818,358	49.5		172,221	45	124,197	43.2	48,024	50.2
Two or more races		646,498	3.2		635,559	3.2	417,747	3.4	217,812	2.8		10,939	2.9	7,948	2.8	2,991	3.1
Race/ethnicity unknown		984,644	4.9		972,287	4.9	503,052	4.1	469,235	6.1		12,357	3.2	8,744	3	3,613	3.8
Nonresident alien		998,065	4.9		996,383	5	827,446	6.8	168,937	2.2		1,682	0.4	1,412	0.5	270	0.3

† Not applicable.

# Rounds to zero.

¹All less-than-2-year institutions were classified into the non-degree-granting status 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. 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. 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 alien 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 IPEDS online glossary located at https://surveys.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/VisGlossaryAll.aspx.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS, Spring 2017, Fall Enrollment component (final data).