Table 248.

Number of degree-granting institutions and enrollment in these institutions, by enrollment size, control, and level of institution: Fall 2010

Control and level 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	4,589	442	623	748	957	670	555	366	141	87
Research university, very high1	99	0	0	0	3	1	8	19	33	35
Research university, high2	102	0	0	0	1	6	16	40	25	14
Doctoral/research university3	81	0	1	3	6	12	20	27	9	3
Master's4	646	4	9	20	106	196	188	96	17	10
Baccalaureate5	890	21	60	200	385	147	42	22	5	8
Specialized institutions6	1,046	268	288	248	164	57	13	7	1	0
2-year	1,725	149	265	277	292	251	268	155	51	17
Public	1,652	5	32	58	260	371	428	299	126	73
Research university, very high1	66	0	0	0	2	1	0	4	27	32
Research university, high2	75	0	0	0	0	1	9	31	21	13
Doctoral/research university3	27	0	0	0	0	1	3	17	6	0
Master's4	261	0	0	1	6	42	113	76	17	6
Baccalaureate5	203	1	0	16	57	70	34	16	4	5
Specialized institutions6	46	1	8	8	14	13	2	0	0	0
Medical or other health	31	1	3	4	9	12	2	0	0	0
Other specialized	15	0	5	4	5	1	0	0	0	0
2-year	974	3	24	33	181	243	267	155	51	17
Private	2,937	437	591	690	697	299	127	67	15	14
Research university, very high1	33	0	0	0	1	0	8	15	6	3
Research university, high2	27	0	0	0	1	5	7	9	4	1
Doctoral/research university3	54	0	1	3	6	11	17	10	3	3
Master's4	385	4	9	19	100	154	75	20	0	4
Baccalaureate5	687	20	60	184	328	77	8	6	1	3
Specialized institutions6	1,000	267	280	240	150	44	11	7	1	0
Art, music, or design	133	14	29	34	40	12	0	4	0	0
Business and management	183	24	55	49	30	14	7	3	1	0
Engineering or technology	149	10	41	70	21	5	2	0	0	0
Medical or other health	177	47	47	39	34	9	1	0	0	0
Theological	296	165	91	28	10	1	1	0	0	0
Other specialized	62	7	17	20	15	3	0	0	0	0
2-year	751	146	241	244	111	8	1	0	0	0
Enrollment in institutions
Total	21,016,126	49,404	210,542	543,551	1,570,359	2,387,984	3,926,938	5,112,239	3,491,462	3,723,647
Research university, very high1	2,584,933	0	0	0	5,325	3,944	57,076	265,972	842,631	1,409,985
Research university, high2	1,860,387	0	0	0	2,265	22,021	117,985	601,806	619,845	496,465
Doctoral/research university3	1,184,647	0	223	2,498	10,959	44,971	154,057	349,431	227,630	394,878
Master's4	4,319,845	549	3,357	15,538	193,975	691,593	1,313,158	1,316,242	404,528	380,905
Baccalaureate5	2,423,721	2,042	23,141	152,156	623,978	498,114	279,706	329,921	132,313	382,350
Specialized institutions6	961,718	29,442	94,467	177,064	252,775	194,738	83,404	100,240	29,588	0
2-year	7,680,875	17,371	89,354	196,295	481,082	932,603	1,921,552	2,148,627	1,234,927	659,064
Public	15,142,809	625	11,032	44,606	462,990	1,368,241	3,084,985	4,210,900	3,125,233	2,834,197
Research university, very high1	2,071,510	0	0	0	3,150	3,944	0	65,426	702,425	1,296,565
Research university, high2	1,533,590	0	0	0	0	2,682	69,143	477,994	521,147	462,624
Doctoral/research university3	421,511	0	0	0	0	4,362	26,408	238,351	152,390	0
Master's4	2,654,459	0	0	795	11,865	158,342	830,400	1,041,844	404,528	206,685
Baccalaureate5	1,150,190	143	0	13,647	96,321	252,222	230,124	238,658	109,816	209,259
Specialized institutions6	93,511	52	2,591	6,373	27,558	43,775	13,162	0	0	0
Medical or other health	73,948	52	978	3,199	17,591	38,966	13,162	0	0	0
Other specialized	19,563	0	1,613	3,174	9,967	4,809	0	0	0	0
2-year	7,218,038	430	8,441	23,791	324,096	902,914	1,915,748	2,148,627	1,234,927	659,064
Private	5,873,317	48,779	199,510	498,945	1,107,369	1,019,743	841,953	901,339	366,229	889,450
Research university, very high1	513,423	0	0	0	2,175	0	57,076	200,546	140,206	113,420
Research university, high2	326,797	0	0	0	2,265	19,339	48,842	123,812	98,698	33,841
Doctoral/research university3	763,136	0	223	2,498	10,959	40,609	127,649	111,080	75,240	394,878
Master's4	1,665,386	549	3,357	14,743	182,110	533,251	482,758	274,398	0	174,220
Baccalaureate5	1,273,531	1,899	23,141	138,509	527,657	245,892	49,582	91,263	22,497	173,091
Specialized institutions6	868,207	29,390	91,876	170,691	225,217	150,963	70,242	100,240	29,588	0
Art, music, or design	202,899	1,689	9,851	24,346	65,357	43,457	0	58,199	0	0
Business and management	265,403	2,930	18,272	35,669	45,239	47,911	43,753	42,041	29,588	0
Engineering or technology	124,268	1,203	14,270	48,106	30,415	16,993	13,281	0	0	0
Medical or other health	135,906	5,344	15,738	28,608	49,196	30,018	7,002	0	0	0
Theological	87,924	17,417	27,389	19,835	14,072	3,005	6,206	0	0	0
Other specialized	51,807	807	6,356	14,127	20,938	9,579	0	0	0	0
2-year	462,837	16,941	80,913	172,504	156,986	29,689	5,804	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://classifications.carnegiefoundation.org/resources/.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2011, Enrollment component. (This table was prepared November 2011.)