Table 206.

Fall enrollment and number of degree-granting institutions, by control and affiliation of institution: Selected years, 1980 through 2010

Control and affiliation of institution	Total enrollment						Enrollment, fall 2010					Number of institutions1
	Fall 1980	Fall 1990	Fall 2000	Fall 2007	Fall 2008	Fall 2009	Total	Full-time		Part-time
								Males	Females	Males	Females	Fall 1980	Fall 1990	Fall 2000	Fall 2009	Fall 2010
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	18,248,128	19,102,814	20,427,711	21,016,126	5,837,057	7,245,210	3,207,754	4,726,105	3,226	3,501	4,056	4,474	4,589
Public institutions	9,457,394	10,844,717	11,752,786	13,490,780	13,972,153	14,810,642	15,142,809	4,049,593	4,714,257	2,629,944	3,749,015	1,493	1,548	1,676	1,671	1,652
Federal	50,989	50,669	16,917	20,515	20,441	21,722	21,622	14,462	5,269	630	1,261	12	17	12	14	14
State	(2)	7,181,380	9,548,090	11,096,629	11,452,186	12,104,170	12,366,422	3,496,733	4,086,515	1,967,717	2,815,457	(2)	978	1,355	1,350	1,331
Local	(2)	3,508,941	2,078,090	2,185,618	2,302,730	2,478,076	2,541,036	482,149	556,145	625,659	877,083	(2)	523	277	261	261
Other public	9,406,405	103,727	109,689	188,018	196,796	206,674	213,729	56,249	66,328	35,938	55,214	1,481	30	32	46	46
Private institutions	2,639,501	2,973,920	3,559,503	4,757,348	5,130,661	5,617,069	5,873,317	1,787,464	2,530,953	577,810	977,090	1,733	1,953	2,380	2,803	2,937
Independent not-for-profit	1,521,614	1,474,818	1,577,242	1,839,639	1,888,905	1,953,136	1,995,440	677,838	815,529	200,313	301,760	795	709	729	734	736
For-profit	111,714	213,693	450,084	1,186,198	1,469,142	1,851,986	2,018,397	517,627	912,272	208,579	379,919	164	322	724	1,181	1,310
Religiously affiliated3	1,006,173	1,285,409	1,532,177	1,731,511	1,772,614	1,811,947	1,859,480	591,999	803,152	168,918	295,411	774	922	927	888	891
Advent Christian Church	143	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	1,091	88	34	1,317	1,366	1,485	1,536	807	657	39	33	3	1	1	3	3
African Methodist Episcopal	4,541	3,220	5,980	2,983	2,880	2,677	2,674	1,162	1,358	53	101	6	5	6	5	5
American Baptist	6,131	10,800	15,410	14,821	14,441	14,716	15,120	3,972	5,766	1,738	3,644	11	15	17	17	18
American Evangelical Lutheran Church	—	—	743	1,375	1,432	1,387	1,340	615	657	29	39	—	—	1	1	1
American Lutheran and Lutheran Church       in America	3,092	—	1,460	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3	—	1	—	—
American Lutheran	21,608	—	—	—	—	22	22	6	16	0	0	13	—	—	1	1
Assemblies of God Church	7,814	8,307	14,272	14,859	15,080	15,137	15,806	5,566	6,770	1,572	1,898	10	11	14	15	16
Baptist	38,231	99,510	107,610	142,145	153,525	165,848	174,481	53,214	67,041	22,556	31,670	33	69	68	72	69
Brethren Church	3,925	958	2,088	8,141	7,954	8,191	8,449	2,469	3,068	1,282	1,630	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	6,565	6,316	6,331	6,465	2,137	2,823	591	914	3	4	4	4	4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	14,913	30,397	35,984	46,747	47,693	50,064	52,839	14,548	23,058	5,586	9,647	12	18	16	18	18
Christian Churches and Churches of       Christ	1,342	2,263	7,277	9,236	9,005	9,263	10,128	3,963	3,923	1,180	1,062	7	8	18	18	18
Christian Methodist Episcopal	2,486	2,174	1,502	3,750	4,503	4,901	4,817	2,264	2,378	69	106	4	4	1	3	3
Christian Reformed Church	5,408	4,488	5,999	5,830	5,808	5,665	5,625	2,647	2,714	127	137	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	15,278	15,977	15,117	16,731	4,987	7,397	1,950	2,397	9	9	7	7	7
Church of New Jerusalem	170	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—
Church of the Brethren	8,482	4,463	4,187	5,549	5,620	5,861	6,154	2,378	3,088	260	428	6	5	4	5	5
Church of the Nazarene	11,716	10,779	16,661	21,048	20,863	21,389	21,144	6,589	9,836	1,731	2,988	10	9	12	10	10
Churches of Christ	9,343	14,611	30,140	33,755	34,368	34,996	35,538	11,992	14,679	3,380	5,487	9	19	19	17	17
Cumberland Presbyterian	594	746	1,112	2,433	2,688	3,247	4,652	1,880	1,205	774	793	2	2	2	2	2
Evangelical Congregational Church	80	88	148	168	158	159	153	28	22	66	37	1	1	1	1	1
Evangelical Covenant Church of America	1,401	1,035	2,387	3,200	3,244	3,186	3,233	766	1,116	417	934	1	1	1	1	1
Evangelical Free Church of America	833	2,355	4,022	3,121	3,021	3,106	2,926	851	693	840	542	1	2	3	2	2
Evangelical Lutheran Church	743	49,210	49,085	55,028	55,251	56,088	56,162	22,161	28,427	2,091	3,483	3	33	34	35	33
Free Methodist	5,543	5,902	7,323	9,699	11,774	12,090	12,270	3,264	6,055	843	2,108	5	3	4	5	5
Free Will Baptist Church	1,132	1,177	2,378	3,890	3,989	4,143	4,383	1,168	2,201	397	617	4	3	4	4	4
Friends United Meeting	1,109	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—
Friends	5,157	5,844	10,898	13,479	13,285	13,786	13,876	4,691	6,183	1,192	1,810	5	6	8	7	7
General Conference Mennonite Church	820	1,243	1,059	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	2	1	—	—
Greek Orthodox	204	148	132	186	190	203	220	163	54	3	0	1	1	1	1	1
Interdenominational	1,254	11,103	9,788	23,776	23,161	23,038	30,140	10,332	13,025	3,410	3,373	4	17	14	26	29
Jewish	5,738	12,217	14,182	8,329	8,861	8,468	12,755	8,028	2,326	709	1,692	24	63	62	32	36
Latter-Day Saints	39,172	42,274	44,680	51,711	52,321	53,249	53,514	23,088	23,641	3,189	3,596	4	4	4	4	4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	11,727	13,827	18,866	22,852	24,280	26,384	28,255	6,876	10,196	3,274	7,909	15	14	13	13	12
Lutheran Church in America	23,877	5,796	4,322	8,244	8,245	8,264	8,240	3,264	4,064	324	588	20	5	2	3	3
Mennonite Brethren Church	1,344	1,864	2,390	3,116	3,192	3,426	4,136	1,114	1,927	332	763	3	3	3	3	3
Mennonite Church	4,008	2,859	3,553	4,001	4,126	4,325	4,263	1,485	1,996	255	527	6	5	5	6	6
Missionary Church Inc.	487	699	1,647	2,097	2,075	2,165	2,152	569	986	198	399	1	1	1	1	1
Moravian Church	2,434	2,511	2,939	2,981	2,979	3,042	3,095	704	1,601	140	650	2	2	2	2	2
Multiple Protestant denominations	5,526	211	4,690	5,052	5,014	5,341	5,350	1,367	1,520	1,564	899	8	1	7	7	6
North American Baptist	155	—	124	121	117	125	120	40	24	34	22	1	—	1	1	1
Pentecostal Holiness Church	767	566	976	1,007	1,057	1,124	1,272	557	534	78	103	3	3	2	3	3
Presbyterian U.S.A. and United       Presbyterian	47,144	77,700	78,950	82,161	82,508	84,691	85,692	31,259	43,638	3,435	7,360	57	70	64	58	58
Presbyterian Church in America	—	1,877	4,499	2,137	2,166	2,174	2,071	874	713	291	193	—	1	5	2	2
Protestant Episcopal	5,396	4,559	5,479	5,012	4,921	5,036	5,006	2,233	2,489	136	148	12	9	12	11	11
Protestant, other	4,072	38,136	30,116	11,636	15,803	16,207	13,361	4,405	5,019	1,933	2,004	11	44	34	23	22
Reformed Church in America	2,713	5,525	6,002	6,582	6,472	6,514	6,555	2,561	3,533	242	219	4	4	5	5	5
Reformed Episcopal Church	67	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—
Reformed Presbyterian Church	2,014	1,556	2,355	2,868	2,901	2,949	2,982	1,206	1,248	302	226	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	715,781	727,894	735,713	751,089	216,867	321,308	70,196	142,718	229	239	239	237	237
Russian Orthodox	47	38	106	80	88	79	60	49	3	6	2	1	1	1	1	1
Seventh-Day Adventists	19,168	15,771	19,223	23,402	23,880	24,818	25,430	8,098	10,820	2,194	4,318	11	11	13	14	14
Southern Baptist	85,281	49,493	54,275	43,041	45,026	46,689	49,882	13,616	19,451	6,671	10,144	54	29	32	22	22
Nondenominational	—	6,758	23,573	26,753	27,872	27,071	27,745	8,107	10,666	4,315	4,657	—	14	16	17	16
Unitarian Universalist	87	82	132	133	138	171	166	36	55	21	54	2	2	2	2	2
United Brethren Church	545	601	938	1,148	1,230	1,270	1,260	498	589	77	96	1	1	1	1	1
United Church of Christ	14,169	20,175	23,709	25,958	26,878	27,507	20,528	5,982	7,925	1,981	4,640	16	18	18	19	17
United Methodist	127,099	148,851	171,109	197,230	198,669	202,913	206,744	74,733	96,296	13,101	22,614	91	96	100	94	96
Wesleyan Church	3,583	5,311	11,128	19,886	20,568	20,492	20,670	6,594	11,670	928	1,478	5	4	4	6	6
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	808	931	1,660	1,518	1,595	1,603	1,677	695	817	97	68	1	3	2	2	2
Other religiously affiliated	462	5,743	2,534	8,295	8,146	8,041	8,526	2,474	3,887	719	1,446	1	9	4	10	13

—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 Appendix A: Guide to Sources for details.)

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; Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Fall Enrollment Survey" (IPEDS-EF:90) and "Institutional Characteristics Survey" (IPEDS-IC:90); and IPEDS Spring 2001 through Spring 2011, Enrollment component. (This table was prepared November 2011.)