National Center for Education Statistics

Table 02. Number of full-time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates enrolled, number and percentage awarded financial aid, and average amount of financial aid awarded at Title IV institutions, by control and level of institution and type of aid: United States, academic year 2018–19
Type of aid		Public			Private
		Public			Nonprofit			For-profit
	All institutions	4-year	2-year	Less-than- 2-year	4-year	2-year	Less-than- 2-year	4-year	2-year	Less-than- 2-year
Full-time, first-time undergraduates enrolled	2,673,591	1,208,851	597,553	16,386	528,415	33,193	6,852	50,712	103,288	128,341
	Number awarded financial aid
Any financial aid	2,234,055	1,011,977	457,113	12,120	475,523	31,917	5,275	44,761	89,053	106,316
Grant or loan aid	2,191,254	986,675	448,271	11,459	469,796	31,830	5,203	44,366	87,767	105,887
Federal grants	1,167,613	451,106	311,121	8,576	172,425	26,732	4,390	33,152	71,310	88,801
Federal Pell grants	1,156,267	447,676	307,449	7,960	169,781	26,623	4,299	33,021	71,091	88,367
Other federal grants	306,197	108,936	61,321	1,187	80,357	1,732	1,546	11,414	21,235	18,469
State/local grants and scholarships	869,909	464,679	251,902	2,981	131,272	2,045	1,397	5,532	5,802	4,299
Institutional grants and scholarships	1,205,103	622,002	96,948	1,702	436,830	5,446	697	15,432	13,001	13,045
Loans to students¹	1,170,273	530,372	102,516	3,842	304,311	28,658	2,801	35,333	75,533	86,907
Federal loans	1,147,703	519,034	100,888	3,774	297,313	28,488	2,794	35,030	74,369	86,013
Other loans	164,322	77,352	3,613	105	60,060	2,556	46	2,905	11,056	6,629

	Percent awarded financial aid

Any financial aid	83.6	83.7	76.5	74.0	90.0	96.2	77.0	88.3	86.2	82.8
Grant or loan aid	82.0	81.6	75.0	69.9	88.9	95.9	75.9	87.5	85.0	82.5
Federal grants	43.7	37.3	52.1	52.3	32.6	80.5	64.1	65.4	69.0	69.2
Federal Pell grants	43.2	37.0	51.5	48.6	32.1	80.2	62.7	65.1	68.8	68.9
Other federal grants	11.5	9.0	10.3	7.2	15.2	5.2	22.6	22.5	20.6	14.4
State/local grants and scholarships	32.5	38.4	42.2	18.2	24.8	6.2	20.4	10.9	5.6	3.3
Institutional grants and scholarships	45.1	51.5	16.2	10.4	82.7	16.4	10.2	30.4	12.6	10.2
Loans to students¹	43.8	43.9	17.2	23.4	57.6	86.3	40.9	69.7	73.1	67.7
Federal loans	42.9	42.9	16.9	23.0	56.3	85.8	40.8	69.1	72.0	67.0
Other loans	6.1	6.4	0.6	0.6	11.4	7.7	0.7	5.7	10.7	5.2

	Average amount of financial aid²

Federal grants	$5,000	$5,089	$4,932	$4,215	$5,320	$5,802	$4,825	$4,970	$4,574	$4,361
Federal Pell grants	4,815	4,899	4,872	4,277	4,791	5,771	4,215	4,820	4,470	4,301
Other federal grants	885	941	599	1,777	1,293	832	1,981	490	398	390
State/local grants and scholarships	3,783	4,412	2,269	2,476	4,506	3,602	2,386	3,584	3,275	4,725
Institutional grants and scholarships	11,472	6,214	2,047	1,323	21,974	5,646	2,577	5,830	1,610	1,251
Loans to students¹	7,196	7,012	4,663	6,360	8,329	7,043	6,699	8,185	7,262	6,990
Federal loans	5,625	5,268	4,487	6,322	5,696	6,794	6,552	7,405	6,821	6,657
Other loans	11,965	12,725	7,018	5,485	14,004	3,238	9,967	10,262	3,735	5,264

¹Loans to students include only loans made directly to students. Federal loans to parents (Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students [PLUS]) and other loans made directly to parents are not included.

²Average grants or loans were calculated by dividing the total amount of grants or loans awarded by the total number of students awarded grants or loans.

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. However, these four U.S. service academies are not included in this table. Percentages in the rows of this table use the corresponding count in the "Full-time, first-time undergraduates enrolled" row as the denominator. Detail may not sum to total because students with more than one source of financial aid were counted for each type of aid they were awarded but were included only once in the total count. Definitions for terms used in this table may be found in the collection year’s archived downloadable glossary located at https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data/annual-survey-forms-packages-archived?year=2019.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS, Winter 2019–20, Student Financial Aid component (final data).

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