Table 197.

Fall enrollment and number of degree-granting institutions, by control and affiliation of institution: Selected years, 1980 through 2006

Control and affiliation	Total enrollment						Enrollment, fall 2006					Number of institutions1
	Fall 1980	Fall 1990	Fall 2000	Fall 20032	Fall 2004	Fall 2005	Total	Full-time		Part-time
								Males	Females	Males	Females	Fall 1980	Fall 1990	Fall 2000	Fall 2005	Fall 2006
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
All institutions	12,096,895	13,818,637	15,312,289	16,911,481	17,272,044	17,487,475	17,758,870	4,879,315	6,077,990	2,695,500	4,106,065	3,226	3,501	4,056	4,253	4,301
Public institutions	9,457,394	10,844,717	11,752,786	12,858,698	12,980,112	13,021,834	13,180,133	3,406,146	4,089,417	2,273,258	3,411,312	1,493	1,548	1,676	1,675	1,686
Federal	50,989	50,669	16,917	20,636	20,090	20,197	17,344	11,239	4,266	506	1,333	12	17	12	13	14
State	(2)	7,181,380	9,548,090	10,488,733	10,643,035	10,691,230	10,849,760	2,977,569	3,585,118	1,711,263	2,575,810	(2)	978	1,355	1,352	1,363
Local	(2)	3,508,941	2,078,090	2,176,997	2,128,924	2,123,212	2,127,983	370,276	443,173	530,387	784,147	(2)	523	277	265	264
Other public	9,406,405	103,727	109,689	172,332	188,063	187,195	185,046	47,062	56,860	31,102	50,022	1,481	30	32	45	45
Private institutions	2,639,501	2,973,920	3,559,503	4,052,783	4,291,932	4,465,641	4,578,737	1,473,169	1,988,573	422,242	694,753	1,733	1,953	2,380	2,578	2,615
Independent not-for-profit	1,521,614	1,474,818	1,577,242	1,708,561	1,758,209	1,783,462	1,814,579	612,224	729,086	189,612	283,657	795	709	729	753	745
For-profit	111,714	213,693	450,084	711,735	880,247	1,010,949	1,065,871	327,174	519,009	78,356	141,332	164	322	724	933	979
Religiously affiliated3	1,006,173	1,285,409	1,532,177	1,632,487	1,653,476	1,671,230	1,698,287	533,771	740,478	154,274	269,764	774	922	927	892	891
Advent Christian Church	143	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	1,091	88	34	1,312	1,343	1,269	1,300	706	514	50	30	3	1	1	3	3
African Methodist Episcopal	4,541	3,220	5,980	4,026	3,788	3,475	3,116	1,472	1,459	99	86	6	5	6	5	5
American Baptist	6,131	10,800	15,410	16,073	14,545	14,358	14,381	3,894	5,408	1,594	3,485	11	15	17	16	16
American Evangelical Lutheran Church	—	—	743	1,413	1,414	1,435	1,429	630	704	39	56	—	—	1	1	1
American Lutheran and Lutheran Church in America	3,092	—	1,460	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3	—	1	—	—
American Lutheran	21,608	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	13	—	—	—	—
Assemblies of God Church	7,814	8,307	14,272	13,321	13,826	14,095	14,560	5,282	6,782	1,206	1,290	10	11	14	14	15
Baptist	38,231	99,510	107,610	120,140	120,898	126,649	130,113	42,871	57,030	12,802	17,410	33	69	68	73	74
Brethren Church	3,925	958	2,088	8,762	8,437	8,003	8,035	2,416	2,908	1,012	1,699	3	3	3	3	3
Brethren in Christ Church	1,301	2,239	2,797	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	1	1	—	—
Christian and Missionary Alliance Church	1,705	2,519	5,278	5,866	5,974	6,320	6,391	1,910	2,629	777	1,075	3	4	4	4	4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	14,913	30,397	35,984	41,436	43,139	44,923	45,537	12,540	19,991	5,043	7,963	12	18	16	17	17
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	1,342	2,263	7,277	9,078	9,529	9,686	9,405	3,805	3,867	958	775	7	8	18	19	19
Christian Methodist Episcopal	2,486	2,174	1,502	3,647	3,517	3,778	3,863	1,796	1,861	69	137	4	4	1	3	3
Christian Reformed Church	5,408	4,488	5,999	5,963	5,774	5,757	5,748	2,591	2,782	178	197	3	2	3	3	3
Church of Christ (Scientist)	2,773	2,557	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	6	8	—	—	—
Church of God of Prophecy	—	249	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—
Church of God	6,082	5,627	12,540	13,743	13,669	14,030	14,753	4,652	6,451	1,663	1,987	9	9	7	7	7
Church of New Jerusalem	170	—	—	—	—	—	—					1	—	—	—	—
Church of the Brethren	8,482	4,463	4,187	4,660	5,293	5,382	5,494	2,144	2,852	203	295	6	5	4	5	5
Church of the Nazarene	11,716	10,779	16,661	19,657	19,957	20,418	20,868	6,629	9,296	1,808	3,135	10	9	12	10	10
Churches of Christ	9,343	14,611	30,140	32,226	32,766	33,072	33,028	11,132	13,614	3,297	4,985	9	19	19	20	19
Cumberland Presbyterian	594	746	1,112	1,610	1,625	1,710	2,381	711	858	309	503	2	2	2	2	2
Evangelical Congregational Church	80	88	148	153	156	170	177	17	6	92	62	1	1	1	1	1
Evangelical Covenant Church of America	1,401	1,035	2,387	2,531	2,563	2,684	3,023	735	1,251	315	722	1	1	1	1	1
Evangelical Free Church of America	833	2,355	4,022	2,846	2,972	3,063	3,028	830	728	955	515	1	2	3	2	2
Evangelical Lutheran Church	743	49,210	49,085	53,310	54,138	54,726	54,970	20,955	27,949	2,316	3,750	3	33	34	35	35
Free Methodist	5,543	5,902	7,323	8,921	8,929	9,250	9,345	2,587	4,746	607	1,405	5	3	4	4	4
Free Will Baptist Church	1,132	1,177	2,378	2,955	3,244	3,519	3,842	1,101	1,782	440	519	4	3	4	4	4
Friends United Meeting	1,109	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—
Friends	5,157	5,844	10,898	12,009	12,681	13,387	13,568	4,464	6,213	1,088	1,803	5	6	8	7	7
General Conference Mennonite Church	820	1,243	1,059	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	2	1	—	—
Greek Orthodox	204	148	132	252	255	184	196	139	48	9	0	1	1	1	1	1
Interdenominational	1,254	11,103	9,788	21,461	22,120	22,493	23,066	7,510	8,788	2,991	3,777	4	17	14	23	24
Jewish	5,738	12,217	14,182	7,608	7,777	7,847	8,412	6,201	1,040	466	705	24	63	62	33	33
Latter-Day Saints	39,172	42,274	44,680	48,105	49,636	50,840	52,091	22,150	23,007	3,561	3,373	4	4	4	4	4
Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod	11,727	13,827	18,866	21,189	22,748	19,686	21,107	5,907	7,885	2,201	5,114	15	14	13	12	12
Lutheran Church in America	23,877	5,796	4,322	4,500	4,441	8,243	8,238	3,331	4,190	217	500	20	5	2	3	3
Mennonite Brethren Church	1,344	1,864	2,390	2,889	2,813	2,751	3,124	673	1,106	452	893	3	3	3	3	3
Mennonite Church	4,008	2,859	3,553	3,922	4,112	4,186	4,150	1,527	2,089	189	345	6	5	5	6	6
Missionary Church Inc.	487	699	1,647	1,848	1,988	1,959	2,081	535	891	217	438	1	1	1	1	1
Moravian Church	2,434	2,511	2,939	3,193	3,363	3,116	3,059	665	1,613	149	632	2	2	2	2	2
Multiple Protestant denominations	5,526	211	4,690	4,686	5,092	5,159	5,156	1,315	1,326	1,504	1,011	8	1	7	7	7
North American Baptist	155	—	124	136	105	107	100	45	21	15	19	1	—	1	1	1
Pentecostal Holiness Church	767	566	976	977	1,013	1,105	1,097	421	432	127	117	3	3	2	3	3
Presbyterian U.S.A. and United Presbyterian	47,144	77,700	78,950	82,350	81,207	82,141	81,921	29,528	41,403	3,519	7,471	57	70	64	60	59
Presbyterian Church in America	—	1,877	4,499	4,371	4,370	2,953	2,893	1,044	858	691	300	—	1	5	3	3
Protestant Episcopal	5,396	4,559	5,479	4,953	5,360	4,970	5,015	2,211	2,393	200	211	12	9	12	11	11
Protestant, other	4,072	38,136	30,116	19,107	11,244	11,589	11,026	3,865	4,494	1,278	1,389	11	44	34	20	20
Reformed Church in America	2,713	5,525	6,002	6,321	6,424	6,311	6,460	2,549	3,451	203	257	4	4	5	5	5
Reformed Episcopal Church	67	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—
Reformed Presbyterian Church	2,014	1,556	2,355	3,143	3,180	3,090	2,946	1,108	1,334	259	245	4	2	2	3	3
Reorganized Latter-Day Saints Church	4,274	4,793	3,390	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	1	2	—	—
Roman Catholic	422,842	530,585	636,336	684,418	695,069	694,517	706,245	194,672	298,878	70,698	141,997	229	239	239	241	240
Russian Orthodox	47	38	106	89	103	104	106	67	16	15	8	1	1	1	1	1
Seventh-Day Adventists	19,168	15,771	19,223	21,551	22,498	22,848	23,232	7,476	10,053	2,008	3,695	11	11	13	13	13
Southern Baptist	85,281	49,493	54,275	38,313	41,762	38,710	40,747	11,321	15,869	5,409	8,148	54	29	32	21	22
Nondenominational	—	6,758	23,573	32,257	25,465	26,340	27,164	7,436	9,009	5,063	5,656	—	14	16	16	17
Unitarian Universalist	87	82	132	188	197	200	218	47	82	25	64	2	2	2	2	2
United Brethren Church	545	601	938	969	959	1,005	1,071	397	480	103	91	1	1	1	1	1
United Church of Christ	14,169	20,175	23,709	23,661	28,499	28,651	26,993	8,577	11,995	2,044	4,377	16	18	18	20	19
United Methodist	127,099	148,851	171,109	180,177	185,853	191,468	192,958	67,945	89,897	12,471	22,645	91	96	100	99	97
Wesleyan Church	3,583	5,311	11,128	15,059	16,778	18,043	19,288	6,186	11,437	601	1,064	5	4	4	6	6
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	808	931	1,660	1,726	1,641	1,571	1,561	627	779	88	67	1	3	2	2	2
Other religiously affiliated	462	5,743	2,534	7,410	7,227	7,884	8,211	2,426	3,933	581	1,271	1	9	4	10	10

— Not available. 1 Counts of institutions in this table may be lower than reported in other tables, because counts in this table include only institutions reporting separate enrollment data. 2 Included under "Other public." 3 Religious affiliation as reported by institution. NOTE: Data through 1995 are for institutions of higher education, while later data are for degree-granting institutions. Degree-granting institutions grant associate's or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. The degree-granting classification is very similar to the earlier higher education classification, but it includes more 2-year colleges and excludes a few higher education institutions that did not grant degrees. (See Guide to Sources for details.) Some data have been revised from previously published figures. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), "Fall Enrollment in Institutions of Higher Education" and "Institutional Characteristics" surveys, 1980; and 1990 through 2006 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, "Fall Enrollment Survey" (IPEDS-EF:90–95), "Institutional Characteristics Survey" (IPEDS-IC:90–95), and Spring 2003 through Spring 2007. (This table was prepared June 2008.)