| Table 01. Number and percentage distribution of Title IV institutions, by control of institution, level of institution, and region: United States and other U.S. jurisdictions, academic year 2023–24 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Level of institution and region | Number of institutions | Percent of institutions | ||||||||
| All institutions | Public | Private | All institutions | Public | Private | |||||
| Nonprofit | For-profit | Nonprofit | For-profit | |||||||
| All institutions | 5,819 | 1,905 | 1,746 | 2,168 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | ||
| Total U.S. institutions | 5,686 | 1,878 | 1,697 | 2,111 | 97.7 | 98.6 | 97.2 | 97.4 | ||
| Total other U.S. jurisdictions | 133 | 27 | 49 | 57 | 2.3 | 1.4 | 2.8 | 2.6 | ||
| Level of institution | ||||||||||
| 4-year | 2,691 | 817 | 1,567 | 307 | 46.2 | 42.9 | 89.7 | 14.2 | ||
| U.S. | 2,614 | 796 | 1,520 | 298 | 44.9 | 41.8 | 87.1 | 13.7 | ||
| Other U.S. jurisdictions | 77 | 21 | 47 | 9 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 2.7 | 0.4 | ||
| 2-year | 1,496 | 864 | 124 | 508 | 25.7 | 45.4 | 7.1 | 23.4 | ||
| U.S. | 1,480 | 858 | 124 | 498 | 25.4 | 45.0 | 7.1 | 23.0 | ||
| Other U.S. jurisdictions | 16 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.5 | ||
| Less-than-2-year | 1,632 | 224 | 55 | 1,353 | 28.0 | 11.8 | 3.2 | 62.4 | ||
| U.S. | 1,592 | 224 | 53 | 1,315 | 27.4 | 11.8 | 3.0 | 60.7 | ||
| Other U.S. jurisdictions | 40 | 0 | 2 | 38 | 0.7 | 0 | 0.1 | 1.8 | ||
| Region1 | ||||||||||
| Far West | 851 | 255 | 216 | 380 | 14.6 | 13.4 | 12.4 | 17.5 | ||
| Great Lakes | 833 | 262 | 264 | 307 | 14.3 | 13.8 | 15.1 | 14.2 | ||
| Mid East | 958 | 263 | 415 | 280 | 16.5 | 13.8 | 23.8 | 12.9 | ||
| New England | 293 | 86 | 140 | 67 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 8.0 | 3.1 | ||
| Plains | 465 | 179 | 171 | 115 | 8.0 | 9.4 | 9.8 | 5.3 | ||
| Rocky Mountains | 212 | 81 | 25 | 106 | 3.6 | 4.3 | 1.4 | 4.9 | ||
| Southeast | 1,440 | 531 | 360 | 549 | 24.7 | 27.9 | 20.6 | 25.3 | ||
| Southwest | 629 | 216 | 106 | 307 | 10.8 | 11.3 | 6.1 | 14.2 | ||
| U.S. service academies | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Other U.S. jurisdictions | 133 | 27 | 49 | 57 | 2.3 | 1.4 | 2.8 | 2.6 | ||
1The Far West region includes Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. The Great Lakes region includes Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The Mid East region includes Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. The New England region includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The other U.S. jurisdictions include American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, the Marshall Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Plains region includes Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The Rocky Mountains region includes Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming. The Southeast region includes Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The Southwest region includes Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. The U.S. service academies include the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
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 U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, and the U.S. Air Force Academy are not Title IV eligible but are included in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) universe because they are federally funded and open to the public; they are included in this table. The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy is Title IV eligible and is also included in this table. Percentages in the columns of this table use the corresponding count in the “All institutions” row as the denominator. Data are not imputed. The item response rates for all cells in this table are 100 percent. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. 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=2023.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS, Fall 2023, Institutional Characteristics component (final data).