Table 275.

Number of degree-granting institutions and enrollment in these institutions, by enrollment size, control, and level of institution: Fall 2011

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	4,703	503	726	730	937	677	530	368	142	90
Research university, very high1	107	0	0	0	1	0	10	20	36	40
Research university, high2	98	0	0	0	1	3	15	43	25	11
Doctoral/research university3	88	1	1	3	8	16	25	23	8	3
Master's4	704	0	10	24	140	220	180	98	19	13
Baccalaureate5	850	22	66	202	370	129	34	16	4	7
Special-focus institutions6	1,119	308	327	260	153	52	12	6	1	0
2-year	1,737	172	322	241	264	257	254	162	49	16
Public	1,649	8	31	57	263	375	410	305	124	76
Research university, very high1	73	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	29	37
Research university, high2	73	0	0	0	0	0	8	34	21	10
Doctoral/research university3	28	0	0	0	0	2	4	16	6	0
Master's4	270	0	0	1	10	49	112	76	16	6
Baccalaureate5	191	0	1	16	57	65	29	13	3	7
Special-focus institutions6	47	3	7	8	15	12	2	0	0	0
Medical or other health	30	1	3	4	9	11	2	0	0	0
Other special focus	17	2	4	4	6	1	0	0	0	0
2-year	967	5	23	32	181	247	253	161	49	16
Private	3,054	495	695	673	674	302	120	63	18	14
Research university, very high1	34	0	0	0	1	0	8	15	7	3
Research university, high2	25	0	0	0	1	3	7	9	4	1
Doctoral/research university3	60	1	1	3	8	14	21	7	2	3
Master's4	434	0	10	23	130	171	68	22	3	7
Baccalaureate5	659	22	65	186	313	64	5	3	1	0
Special-focus institutions6	1,072	305	320	252	138	40	10	6	1	0
Art, music, or design	139	14	35	41	36	10	1	2	0	0
Business and management	237	53	80	53	27	14	6	3	1	0
Engineering or technology	158	20	57	67	12	1	0	1	0	0
Medical or other health	190	47	48	46	37	10	2	0	0	0
Theological	294	165	89	25	11	3	1	0	0	0
Other special focus	54	6	11	20	15	2	0	0	0	0
2-year	770	167	299	209	83	10	1	1	0	0
Enrollment in institutions
Total	20,994,113	55,930	247,181	524,437	1,547,427	2,421,096	3,730,527	5,092,745	3,502,951	3,871,819
Research university, very high1	2,886,167	0	0	0	2,231	0	71,925	284,615	911,332	1,616,064
Research university, high2	1,795,088	0	0	0	2,177	11,488	116,300	650,885	638,076	376,162
Doctoral/research university3	1,149,435	92	226	2,103	14,341	56,006	190,763	297,390	195,286	393,228
Master's4	4,663,997	0	3,722	17,554	256,274	798,586	1,255,497	1,318,992	445,198	568,174
Baccalaureate5	2,072,153	2,733	24,708	148,546	600,635	437,043	224,436	242,100	108,284	283,668
Special-focus institutions6	927,291	32,754	107,857	185,027	234,686	174,627	83,033	86,763	22,544	0
2-year	7,499,982	20,351	110,668	171,207	437,083	943,346	1,788,573	2,212,000	1,182,231	634,523
Public	15,110,196	1,145	11,460	44,414	461,951	1,378,926	2,916,946	4,250,443	3,067,982	2,976,929
Research university, very high1	2,341,040	0	0	0	0	0	14,411	80,213	744,712	1,501,704
Research university, high2	1,473,049	0	0	0	0	0	66,410	527,607	536,971	342,061
Doctoral/research university3	404,864	0	0	0	0	7,006	32,521	216,516	148,821	0
Master's4	2,638,999	0	0	691	19,425	191,002	810,170	1,030,238	372,500	214,973
Baccalaureate5	1,099,460	0	273	13,262	94,058	232,939	196,327	196,186	82,747	283,668
Special-focus institutions6	90,317	446	2,587	6,389	27,039	40,249	13,607	0	0	0
Medical or other health	70,196	52	1,060	3,241	16,138	36,098	13,607	0	0	0
Other special focus	20,121	394	1,527	3,148	10,901	4,151	0	0	0	0
2-year	7,062,467	699	8,600	24,072	321,429	907,730	1,783,500	2,199,683	1,182,231	634,523
Private	5,883,917	54,785	235,721	480,023	1,085,476	1,042,170	813,581	842,302	434,969	894,890
Research university, very high1	545,127	0	0	0	2,231	0	57,514	204,402	166,620	114,360
Research university, high2	322,039	0	0	0	2,177	11,488	49,890	123,278	101,105	34,101
Doctoral/research university3	744,571	92	226	2,103	14,341	49,000	158,242	80,874	46,465	393,228
Master's4	2,024,998	0	3,722	16,863	236,849	607,584	445,327	288,754	72,698	353,201
Baccalaureate5	972,693	2,733	24,435	135,284	506,577	204,104	28,109	45,914	25,537	0
Special-focus institutions6	836,974	32,308	105,270	178,638	207,647	134,378	69,426	86,763	22,544	0
Art, music, or design	179,369	1,402	12,577	30,746	60,316	35,589	9,820	28,919	0	0
Business and management	259,816	6,005	26,251	36,991	38,642	46,906	39,953	42,524	22,544	0
Engineering or technology	105,779	2,407	20,923	45,678	17,800	3,651	0	15,320	0	0
Medical or other health	153,869	5,250	14,971	33,947	54,859	31,563	13,279	0	0	0
Theological	92,979	16,673	26,954	17,461	15,400	10,117	6,374	0	0	0
Other special focus	45,162	571	3,594	13,815	20,630	6,552	0	0	0	0
2-year	437,515	19,652	102,068	147,135	115,654	35,616	5,073	12,317	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 2012, Enrollment component. (This table was prepared November 2012.)