National Center for Education Statistics

Enrollment at Title IV institutions, by control and level of institution, student level, attendance status, gender, and race/ethnicity: United States, fall 2009
	Total		Public		Private not-for-profit		Private for-profit
Level of institution, student level, attendance status, gender, and race/ethnicity	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Total students	20,966,826	100.0	14,936,382	100.0	3,791,418	100.0	2,239,026	100.0
4-year	12,906,743	61.6	7,709,240	51.6	3,730,666	98.4	1,466,837	65.5
Undergraduate	10,044,034	47.9	6,285,149	42.1	2,558,713	67.5	1,200,172	53.6
Full time	7,894,895	37.7	4,904,272	32.8	2,119,990	55.9	870,633	38.9
Part time	2,149,139	10.3	1,380,877	9.2	438,723	11.6	329,539	14.7
Men	4,398,939	21.0	2,867,053	19.2	1,090,851	28.8	441,035	19.7
Women	5,645,095	26.9	3,418,096	22.9	1,467,862	38.7	759,137	33.9
American Indian or Alaska Native	90,160	0.4	62,676	0.4	17,354	0.5	10,130	0.5
Asian, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander	582,604	2.8	420,373	2.8	133,286	3.5	28,945	1.3
Black or African American	1,271,636	6.1	726,377	4.9	294,799	7.8	250,460	11.2
Hispanic or Latino	949,304	4.5	664,245	4.4	171,152	4.5	113,907	5.1
White	5,928,302	28.3	3,889,351	26.0	1,589,786	41.9	449,165	20.1
Two or more races1	40,759	0.2	26,812	0.2	8,270	0.2	5,677	0.3
Race/ethnicity unknown	907,005	4.3	329,786	2.2	250,063	6.6	327,156	14.6
Nonresident alien	274,264	1.3	165,529	1.1	94,003	2.5	14,732	0.7
Graduate	2,862,709	13.7	1,424,091	9.5	1,171,953	30.9	266,665	11.9
Full time	1,579,602	7.5	745,484	5.0	663,522	17.5	170,596	7.6
Part time	1,283,107	6.1	678,607	4.5	508,431	13.4	96,069	4.3
Men	1,174,107	5.6	592,286	4.0	495,034	13.1	86,787	3.9
Women	1,688,602	8.1	831,805	5.6	676,919	17.9	179,878	8.0
American Indian or Alaska Native	16,356	0.1	9,705	0.1	4,858	0.1	1,793	0.1
Asian, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander	168,242	0.8	80,649	0.5	77,382	2.0	10,211	0.5
Black or African American	296,751	1.4	123,719	0.8	104,864	2.8	68,168	3.0
Hispanic or Latino	159,616	0.8	84,429	0.6	61,125	1.6	14,062	0.6
White	1,587,912	7.6	847,564	5.7	640,418	16.9	99,930	4.5
Two or more races1	5,811	#	2,712	#	2,567	0.1	532	#
Race/ethnicity unknown	322,466	1.5	97,321	0.7	161,606	4.3	63,539	2.8
Nonresident alien	305,555	1.5	177,992	1.2	119,133	3.1	8,430	0.4
2-year2	7,674,744	36.6	7,160,665	47.9	46,579	1.2	467,500	20.9
Full time	3,372,543	16.1	2,918,050	19.5	33,483	0.9	421,010	18.8
Part time	4,302,201	20.5	4,242,615	28.4	13,096	0.3	46,490	2.1
Men	3,271,579	15.6	3,082,714	20.6	15,157	0.4	173,708	7.8
Women	4,403,165	21.0	4,077,951	27.3	31,422	0.8	293,792	13.1
American Indian or Alaska Native	85,651	0.4	80,555	0.5	1,415	#	3,681	0.2
Asian, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander	444,999	2.1	427,096	2.9	2,150	0.1	15,753	0.7
Black or African American	1,090,172	5.2	973,438	6.5	8,357	0.2	108,377	4.8
Hispanic or Latino	1,200,618	5.7	1,109,397	7.4	3,585	0.1	87,636	3.9
White	4,097,963	19.5	3,878,491	26.0	26,495	0.7	192,977	8.6
Two or more races1	41,008	0.2	35,808	0.2	195	#	5,005	0.2
Race/ethnicity unknown	614,993	2.9	559,894	3.7	3,206	0.1	51,893	2.3
Nonresident alien	99,340	0.5	95,986	0.6	1,176	#	2,178	0.1
Less-than-2-year	385,339	1.8	66,477	0.4	14,173	0.4	304,689	13.6
Full time	316,180	1.5	40,507	0.3	11,723	0.3	263,950	11.8
Part time	69,159	0.3	25,970	0.2	2,450	0.1	40,739	1.8
Men	107,952	0.5	28,461	0.2	5,418	0.1	74,073	3.3
Women	277,387	1.3	38,016	0.3	8,755	0.2	230,616	10.3
American Indian or Alaska Native	4,384	#	2,228	#	116	#	2,040	0.1
Asian, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander	13,938	0.1	2,231	#	1,001	#	10,706	0.5
Black or African American	94,105	0.4	9,660	0.1	3,630	0.1	80,815	3.6
Hispanic or Latino	94,925	0.5	16,246	0.1	5,070	0.1	73,609	3.3
White	146,237	0.7	34,381	0.2	3,891	0.1	107,965	4.8
Two or more races1	1,978	#	169	#	28	#	1,781	0.1
Race/ethnicity unknown	27,319	0.1	1,446	#	336	#	25,537	1.1
Nonresident alien	2,453	#	116	#	101	#	2,236	0.1

# Rounds to zero.

¹ Two or more races was an optional reporting category in IPEDS 2009-10, and a total of 1,931 institutions reported an enrollment of 89,556 students of Two or more races (0.4 percent of the 20,966,826 total students) using this option. The figures reported here should not be considered representative of the total number of individuals who could be classified into Two or more races.

² Includes one student enrolled in graduate-level courses at one 2-year institution.

NOTE: Percentages in the columns of this table use the corresponding count in the “Total students ” row as the denominator. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2010, Enrollment component.