Table 303.90.

Fall enrollment and number of degree-granting postsecondary institutions, by control and religious affiliation of institution: Selected years, 1980 through 2014

Control and religious affiliation of institution	Total enrollment						Enrollment, fall 2014					Number of institutions1
	Fall 1980	Fall 1990	Fall 2000	Fall 2010	Fall 2012	Fall 2013	Total	Full-time		Part-time
								Males	Females	Males	Females	Fall 1980	Fall 1990	Fall 2000	Fall 2010	Fall 2014
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	21,019,438	20,644,478	20,375,789	20,207,369	5,619,391	6,834,584	3,177,670	4,575,724	3,226	3,501	4,056	4,589	4,614
Public institutions	9,457,394	10,844,717	11,752,786	15,142,171	14,884,667	14,745,558	14,655,015	3,914,629	4,483,090	2,624,305	3,632,991	1,493	1,548	1,676	1,652	1,621
Federal	50,989	50,669	16,917	21,610	20,691	19,802	19,791	13,020	5,103	589	1,079	12	17	12	14	14
State	(2)	7,181,380	9,548,090	12,364,881	12,195,406	12,120,534	12,076,058	3,429,928	3,947,388	1,963,263	2,735,479	(2)	978	1,355	1,331	1,310
Local	(2)	3,508,941	2,078,090	2,542,044	2,457,497	2,398,360	2,355,444	418,894	468,270	624,915	843,365	(2)	523	277	261	257
Other public	9,406,405	103,727	109,689	213,636	211,073	206,862	203,722	52,787	62,329	35,538	53,068	1,481	30	32	46	40
Private institutions	2,639,501	2,973,920	3,559,503	5,877,267	5,759,811	5,630,231	5,552,354	1,704,762	2,351,494	553,365	942,733	1,733	1,953	2,380	2,937	2,993
Independent nonprofit	1,521,614	1,474,818	1,577,242	1,994,900	2,062,099	2,089,266	2,107,949	723,857	873,292	203,291	307,509	795	709	729	736	784
For-profit	111,714	213,693	450,084	2,022,785	1,808,423	1,656,227	1,556,265	382,663	670,382	171,739	331,481	164	322	724	1,310	1,327
Religiously affiliated3	1,006,173	1,285,409	1,532,177	1,859,582	1,889,289	1,884,738	1,888,140	598,242	807,820	178,335	303,743	774	922	927	891	882
Advent Christian Church	143	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	1,091	88	34	1,536	1,459	1,541	1,683	864	754	33	32	3	1	1	3	3
African Methodist Episcopal	4,541	3,220	5,980	2,674	2,491	2,700	2,777	1,165	1,385	83	144	6	5	6	5	6
American Baptist	6,131	10,800	15,410	15,120	14,455	13,990	13,917	4,171	5,510	1,411	2,825	11	15	17	18	18
American Evangelical Lutheran Church	—	—	743	1,340	1,315	1,341	1,320	594	647	34	45	—	—	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	15,806	15,334	15,953	15,801	5,235	6,682	1,744	2,140	10	11	14	16	14
Baptist	38,231	99,510	107,610	174,538	111,863	111,586	106,897	34,925	46,028	10,363	15,581	33	69	68	69	66
Brethren Church	3,925	958	2,088	8,506	7,979	8,070	7,829	2,103	3,037	1,536	1,153	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	6,455	6,688	6,530	6,361	1,987	2,795	651	928	3	4	4	4	4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	14,913	30,397	35,984	52,839	54,855	47,253	47,113	14,617	21,369	4,368	6,759	12	18	16	18	17
Christian Churches and Churches of        Christ	1,342	2,263	7,277	10,074	10,700	10,536	10,349	3,933	4,033	1,177	1,206	7	8	18	18	19
Christian Methodist Episcopal	2,486	2,174	1,502	4,817	4,048	4,191	3,857	2,016	1,724	55	62	4	4	1	3	3
Christian Reformed Church	5,408	4,488	5,999	5,625	5,697	5,770	5,743	2,611	2,765	186	181	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	16,731	17,821	17,977	17,946	5,407	7,902	1,935	2,702	9	9	7	7	9
Church of New Jerusalem	170	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—
Church of the Brethren	8,482	4,463	4,187	6,154	6,261	6,245	6,243	2,518	3,108	234	383	6	5	4	5	6
Church of the Nazarene	11,716	10,779	16,661	21,144	21,401	21,597	21,563	6,167	9,871	2,050	3,475	10	9	12	10	10
Churches of Christ	9,343	14,611	30,140	35,538	35,915	35,281	35,122	11,611	15,280	3,189	5,042	9	19	19	17	17
Cumberland Presbyterian	594	746	1,112	4,652	6,500	6,926	6,508	2,003	2,601	724	1,180	2	2	2	2	2
Episcopal Church, Reformed	67	—	—	—	1,204	1,238	1,221	56	356	93	716	1	—	—	—	1
Evangelical Christian	—	—	—	—	74,372	77,338	81,459	16,188	22,115	16,942	26,214	—	—	—	—	1
Evangelical Congregational Church	80	88	148	153	123	113	123	15	17	59	32	1	1	1	1	1
Evangelical Covenant Church of America	1,401	1,035	2,387	3,233	3,141	3,189	3,253	808	1,295	343	807	1	1	1	1	2
Evangelical Free Church of America	833	2,355	4,022	2,926	2,651	2,472	2,495	755	520	755	465	1	2	3	2	2
Evangelical Lutheran Church	743	49,210	49,085	56,162	52,122	51,796	50,905	20,115	25,466	2,027	3,297	3	33	34	33	31
Free Methodist	5,543	5,902	7,323	12,270	12,254	12,372	12,184	3,426	6,204	749	1,805	5	3	4	5	5
Free Will Baptist Church	1,132	1,177	2,378	528	568	570	583	254	191	92	46	4	3	4	3	3
Friends United Meeting	1,109	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—
Friends	5,157	5,844	10,898	13,876	12,921	12,555	12,203	4,562	5,242	930	1,469	5	6	8	7	7
General Baptist	—	—	—	—	—	—	2,086	301	294	605	886	—	—	—	—	1
General Conference Mennonite Church	820	1,243	1,059	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	2	1	—	—
Greek Orthodox	204	148	132	220	209	208	183	129	41	11	2	1	1	1	1	1
Interdenominational	1,254	11,103	9,788	33,778	39,376	39,277	39,716	12,972	16,450	4,798	5,496	4	17	14	31	32
Jewish	5,738	12,217	14,182	12,755	14,991	15,390	14,873	9,692	3,127	532	1,522	24	63	62	36	35
Latter-Day Saints	39,172	42,274	44,680	53,514	63,027	63,733	71,901	23,365	22,480	11,307	14,749	4	4	4	4	4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	11,727	13,827	18,866	28,255	30,332	34,105	36,350	8,172	15,628	4,242	8,308	15	14	13	12	11
Lutheran Church in America	23,877	5,796	4,322	8,240	8,193	8,732	8,702	3,518	4,323	331	530	20	5	2	3	3
Mennonite Brethren Church	1,344	1,864	2,390	4,136	4,121	4,129	4,224	1,130	1,996	324	774	3	3	3	3	2
Mennonite Church	4,008	2,859	3,553	4,263	4,236	4,265	4,223	1,415	1,882	290	636	6	5	5	6	6
Missionary Church Inc.	487	699	1,647	2,152	1,963	1,804	1,792	465	787	178	362	1	1	1	1	1
Moravian Church	2,434	2,511	2,939	3,095	3,075	3,024	3,088	688	1,671	139	590	2	2	2	2	2
Multiple Protestant denominations	5,526	211	4,690	5,350	5,274	5,126	5,013	1,233	1,532	1,349	899	8	1	7	6	6
North American Baptist	155	—	124	120	148	143	195	48	21	72	54	1	—	1	1	1
Original Free Will Baptist	—	—	—	3,855	3,714	3,414	3,456	562	836	598	1,460	—	—	—	1	1
Pentecostal Holiness Church	767	566	976	1,272	1,526	1,653	1,629	684	650	111	184	3	3	2	3	2
Presbyterian	—	—	—	—	—	2,882	2,982	971	1,457	179	375	—	—	—	—	2
Presbyterian U.S.A.	47,144	77,700	78,950	85,719	86,696	83,648	84,303	31,204	40,547	3,881	8,671	57	70	64	58	57
Presbyterian Church in America	—	1,877	4,499	2,071	1,803	1,775	1,714	683	705	198	128	—	1	5	2	2
Protestant Episcopal	5,396	4,559	5,479	5,006	4,202	3,935	3,585	1,661	1,687	126	111	12	9	12	11	8
Protestant, other	4,072	38,136	30,116	13,450	16,182	16,884	17,572	5,083	5,929	2,921	3,639	11	44	34	23	24
Reformed Church in America	2,713	5,525	6,002	6,555	6,502	6,453	6,521	2,554	3,393	226	348	4	4	5	5	5
Reformed Presbyterian Church	2,014	1,556	2,355	2,982	2,700	2,748	2,546	1,079	1,090	228	149	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	751,091	747,108	740,576	734,339	220,466	323,378	63,433	127,062	229	239	239	237	234
Russian Orthodox	47	38	106	60	55	81	88	64	10	13	1	1	1	1	1	1
Seventh-Day Adventists	19,168	15,771	19,223	25,430	26,343	25,590	24,918	8,089	11,106	2,060	3,663	11	11	13	14	13
Southern Baptist	85,281	49,493	54,275	49,936	52,627	55,363	55,323	16,489	20,760	7,709	10,365	54	29	32	22	23
Undenominational	—	6,758	23,573	27,748	29,966	32,391	32,811	8,823	12,304	5,013	6,671	—	14	16	16	19
Unitarian Universalist	87	82	132	166	227	174	174	25	68	26	55	2	2	2	2	2
United Brethren Church	545	601	938	1,260	1,204	1,124	1,209	447	621	54	87	1	1	1	1	1
United Church of Christ	14,169	20,175	23,709	20,537	17,480	16,850	16,574	5,305	6,257	1,845	3,167	16	18	18	17	14
United Methodist	127,099	148,851	171,109	206,744	204,482	203,116	203,419	74,393	95,306	12,384	21,336	91	96	100	96	94
Wesleyan Church	3,583	5,311	11,128	20,670	20,160	19,733	19,868	5,903	11,478	874	1,613	5	4	4	6	6
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	808	931	1,660	1,677	1,889	2,002	2,036	788	903	165	180	1	3	2	2	2
Other religiously affiliated	462	5,743	2,534	4,778	5,340	5,280	5,272	1,735	2,206	350	981	1	9	4	11	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 for 1980 and 1990 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. 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; 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 2015, Fall Enrollment component. (This table was prepared February 2016.)