National Center for Education Statistics

Enrollment at Title IV institutions, by degree-granting status, attendance status, level and control of institution, race/ethnicity, and gender: United States, fall 2009
		Degree-granting			Non-degree-granting
Level and control of institution, race/ethnicity, and gender	All institutions	Total	Full time	Part time	Total	Full time	Part time
Total students	20,966,826	20,427,711	12,722,782	7,704,929	539,115	440,438	98,677
Level and control of institution
4-year	12,906,743	12,906,305	9,474,059	3,432,246	438	438	0
Public	7,709,240	7,709,197	5,649,713	2,059,484	43	43	0
Private not-for-profit	3,730,666	3,730,316	2,783,162	947,154	350	350	0
Private for-profit	1,466,837	1,466,792	1,041,184	425,608	45	45	0
2-year¹	7,674,744	7,521,406	3,248,723	4,272,683	153,338	123,820	29,518
Public	7,160,665	7,101,445	2,880,631	4,220,814	59,220	37,419	21,801
Private not-for-profit	46,579	34,767	23,483	11,284	11,812	10,000	1,812
Private for-profit	467,500	385,194	344,609	40,585	82,306	76,401	5,905
Less-than-2-year	385,339	†	†	†	385,339	316,180	69,159
Public	66,477	†	†	†	66,477	40,507	25,970
Private not-for-profit	14,173	†	†	†	14,173	11,723	2,450
Private for-profit	304,689	†	†	†	304,689	263,950	40,739
Race/ethnicity
American Indian or Alaska Native	196,551	190,003	116,952	73,051	6,548	3,983	2,565
Asian, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander	1,209,783	1,190,913	765,947	424,966	18,870	15,695	3,175
Black or African American	2,752,664	2,630,813	1,595,574	1,035,239	121,851	104,166	17,685
Hispanic or Latino	2,404,463	2,285,241	1,230,920	1,054,321	119,222	101,494	17,728
White	11,760,414	11,529,643	7,404,774	4,124,869	230,771	179,545	51,226
Two or more races²	89,556	86,286	54,386	31,900	3,270	2,772	498
Race/ethnicity unknown	1,871,783	1,836,258	1,013,701	822,557	35,525	29,989	5,536
Nonresident alien	681,612	678,554	540,528	138,026	3,058	2,794	264
Gender
Men	8,952,577	8,769,504	5,670,644	3,098,860	183,073	149,079	33,994
Women	12,014,249	11,658,207	7,052,138	4,606,069	356,042	291,359	64,683

† Not applicable.

¹ Includes one student enrolled in graduate-level courses at one 2-year institution.

² Two or more races was an optional reporting category in IPEDS 2009-10, and 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.

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

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