Table 244.

Number of degree-granting institutions and enrollment in these institutions, by size, type, and control of institution: Fall 2009

Type and control of institution	Enrollment size
	Total	Under 200	200 to 499	500 to 999	1,000 to 2,499	2,500 to 4,999	5,000 to 9,999	10,000 to 19,999	20,000 to 29,999	30,000 or more
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Number of institutions
Total	4,474	455	582	719	945	662	533	351	144	83
Research university, very high1	99	0	0	0	3	1	9	20	34	32
Research university, high2	102	0	0	0	1	6	16	41	25	13
Doctoral/research university3	80	0	1	3	7	13	21	23	9	3
Master's4	649	5	8	23	107	205	180	92	17	12
Baccalaureate5	883	24	65	197	394	137	36	18	6	6
Specialized institutions6	950	271	260	210	139	54	12	3	0	1
2-year	1,711	155	248	286	294	246	259	154	53	16
Public	1,671	6	35	79	277	368	413	294	132	67
Research university, very high1	66	0	0	0	2	1	0	5	29	29
Research university, high2	75	0	0	0	0	1	9	31	22	12
Doctoral/research university3	27	0	0	0	0	1	5	15	6	0
Master's4	261	0	0	1	6	45	110	76	16	7
Baccalaureate5	197	1	0	17	61	68	28	13	6	3
Specialized institutions6	46	1	8	7	15	13	2	0	0	0
Medical or other health	31	1	3	4	9	12	2	0	0	0
Other specialized	15	0	5	3	6	1	0	0	0	0
2-year	999	4	27	54	193	239	259	154	53	16
Private	2,803	449	547	640	668	294	120	57	12	16
Research university, very high1	33	0	0	0	1	0	9	15	5	3
Research university, high2	27	0	0	0	1	5	7	10	3	1
Doctoral/research university3	53	0	1	3	7	12	16	8	3	3
Master's4	388	5	8	22	101	160	70	16	1	5
Baccalaureate5	686	23	65	180	333	69	8	5	0	3
Specialized institutions6	904	270	252	203	124	41	10	3	0	1
Art, music, or design	127	16	30	28	38	11	2	2	0	0
Business and management	137	23	32	40	23	11	6	1	0	1
Engineering or technology	118	12	36	47	16	6	1	0	0	0
Medical or other health	168	49	45	39	26	9	0	0	0	0
Theological	288	160	90	28	8	1	1	0	0	0
Other specialized	66	10	19	21	13	3	0	0	0	0
2-year	712	151	221	232	101	7	0	0	0	0
Enrollment in institutions
Total	20,427,711	51,522	197,125	522,691	1,552,330	2,357,099	3,761,159	4,854,250	3,552,599	3,578,936
Research university, very high1	2,549,735	0	0	0	5,237	3,895	65,700	289,062	876,218	1,309,623
Research university, high2	1,813,329	0	0	0	2,261	21,819	115,546	607,864	611,855	453,984
Doctoral/research university3	1,212,637	0	227	2,475	13,170	51,717	166,697	300,742	224,665	452,944
Master's4	4,279,308	585	2,899	17,890	195,437	721,803	1,255,297	1,250,617	401,564	433,216
Baccalaureate5	2,236,825	2,747	24,222	147,110	635,343	464,632	244,704	262,888	164,116	291,063
Specialized institutions6	814,471	29,380	85,159	151,025	213,910	183,220	79,316	41,537	0	30,924
2-year	7,521,406	18,810	84,618	204,191	486,972	910,013	1,833,899	2,101,540	1,274,181	607,182
Public	14,810,642	687	11,731	59,960	495,090	1,352,683	2,946,038	4,083,673	3,258,805	2,601,975
Research university, very high1	2,048,560	0	0	0	3,107	3,895	0	83,401	758,722	1,199,435
Research university, high2	1,493,987	0	0	0	0	2,642	67,705	467,022	536,764	419,854
Doctoral/research university3	407,190	0	0	0	0	4,538	42,882	209,682	150,088	0
Master's4	2,626,164	0	0	948	11,533	168,349	801,275	1,032,209	374,934	236,916
Baccalaureate5	1,043,783	57	0	14,367	104,651	244,345	187,840	189,819	164,116	138,588
Specialized institutions6	89,513	51	2,585	5,188	27,559	41,693	12,437	0	0	0
Medical or other health	70,395	51	936	3,108	16,816	37,047	12,437	0	0	0
Other specialized	19,118	0	1,649	2,080	10,743	4,646	0	0	0	0
2-year	7,101,445	579	9,146	39,457	348,240	887,221	1,833,899	2,101,540	1,274,181	607,182
Private	5,617,069	50,835	185,394	462,731	1,057,240	1,004,416	815,121	770,577	293,794	976,961
Research university, very high1	501,175	0	0	0	2,130	0	65,700	205,661	117,496	110,188
Research university, high2	319,342	0	0	0	2,261	19,177	47,841	140,842	75,091	34,130
Doctoral/research university3	805,447	0	227	2,475	13,170	47,179	123,815	91,060	74,577	452,944
Master's4	1,653,144	585	2,899	16,942	183,904	553,454	454,022	218,408	26,630	196,300
Baccalaureate5	1,193,042	2,690	24,222	132,743	530,692	220,287	56,864	73,069	0	152,475
Specialized institutions6	724,958	29,329	82,574	145,837	186,351	141,527	66,879	41,537	0	30,924
Art, music, or design	181,299	1,981	10,814	19,597	62,004	41,265	17,422	28,216	0	0
Business and management	191,738	2,554	9,925	28,629	33,080	36,041	37,264	13,321	0	30,924
Engineering or technology	99,189	1,452	12,956	33,370	23,167	22,039	6,205	0	0	0
Medical or other health	117,708	5,317	14,933	28,463	39,173	29,822	0	0	0	0
Theological	84,463	16,835	26,529	20,455	11,690	2,966	5,988	0	0	0
Other specialized	50,561	1,190	7,417	15,323	17,237	9,394	0	0	0	0
2-year	419,961	18,231	75,472	164,734	138,732	22,792	0	0	0	0

1 Research universities with a very high level of research activity.

2 Research universities with a high level of research activity.

3 Institutions that award at least 20 doctor's degrees per year, but did not have a high level of research activity.

4 Institutions that award at least 50 master's degrees per year.

5 Institutions that primarily emphasize undergraduate education. Also includes institutions classified as 4-year under the IPEDS system, which had been classified as 2-year in the Carnegie system because they primarily award associate's degrees.

6 Special-focus 4-year institutions award degrees primarily in single fields of study, such as medicine, business, fine arts, theology, and engineering.

NOTE: Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Relative levels of research activity for research universities were determined by an analysis of research and development expenditures, science and engineering research staffing, and doctoral degrees conferred, by field. Further information on the research index ranking may be obtained from http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/classifications/index.asp?key=798#related.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2009 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2010. (This table was prepared October 2010.)