National Center for Education Statistics

Table 1. 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
			Private				Private
	All institutions	Public	Nonprofit	For-profit	All institutions	Public	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
New England	293	86	140	67	5.0	4.5	8.0	3.1
Mid East	958	263	415	280	16.5	13.8	23.8	12.9
Great Lakes	833	262	264	307	14.3	13.8	15.1	14.2
Plains	465	179	171	115	8.0	9.4	9.8	5.3
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
Rocky Mountains	212	81	25	106	3.6	4.3	1.4	4.9
Far West	851	255	216	380	14.6	13.4	12.4	17.5
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 New England region includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The Mid East region includes Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. The Great Lakes region includes Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The Plains region includes Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. 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 Rocky Mountains region includes Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming. The Far West region includes Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. 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. 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.

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 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 2023, Institutional Characteristics component (provisional data).

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