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Digest of Education Statistics: 2015
Digest of Education Statistics: 2015

NCES 2016-014
December 2016


Table 317.40. Number of degree-granting postsecondary institutions and enrollment in these institutions, by enrollment size, control, and level of institution: Fall 2014
Control and level of institution Number of institutions, by enrollment size of institution1 Enrollment, by enrollment size of institution
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
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 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
Total 4,614 612 791 609 892 643 495 341 142 89 20,207,369 69,031 266,824 434,332 1,480,334 2,304,192 3,542,720 4,717,412 3,476,118 3,916,406
Research university, very high2 107 0 0 0 1 0 9 22 32 43 2,963,505 0 0 0 2,209 0 63,677 321,086 824,619 1,751,914
Research university, high3 97 0 0 0 1 2 14 42 27 11 1,807,492 0 0 0 2,160 7,296 107,788 623,645 673,394 393,209
Doctoral/research university4 88 1 1 4 9 15 21 26 9 2 854,781 88 291 3,124 15,054 53,583 152,701 332,439 210,252 87,249
Master's5  675 3 10 21 136 207 178 86 20 14 4,607,954 463 3,329 15,045 247,460 756,900 1,272,104 1,168,696 464,352 679,605
Baccalaureate6 853 28 95 175 356 136 33 18 4 8 2,103,907 3,051 34,715 128,412 573,830 463,848 220,912 260,757 98,240 320,142
Special-focus institutions7  1,183 367 375 217 146 55 13 6 3 1 1,155,245 40,937 122,818 151,297 220,604 186,888 87,181 81,625 68,836 195,059
2-year 1,611 213 310 192 243 228 227 141 47 10 6,714,485 24,492 105,671 136,454 419,017 835,677 1,638,357 1,929,164 1,136,425 489,228
                                         
Public 1,621 10 34 66 287 361 384 281 125 73 14,655,015 1,506 12,716 52,348 507,752 1,328,046 2,774,495 3,906,638 3,075,542 2,995,972
Research university, very high2 73 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 25 40 2,398,724 0 0 0 0 0 14,361 103,073 653,215 1,628,075
Research university, high3 73 0 0 0 0 0 7 32 24 10 1,502,013 0 0 0 0 0 57,500 480,393 601,395 362,725
Doctoral/research university4 29 0 0 0 1 1 4 16 7 0 420,049 0 0 0 2,200 3,331 31,653 216,857 166,008 0
Master's5  274 0 1 0 11 54 112 71 19 6 2,682,609 0 469 0 21,821 208,793 817,351 958,955 442,794 232,426
Baccalaureate6 207 0 1 19 59 71 31 16 3 7 1,166,559 0 488 14,848 98,899 256,158 206,228 230,715 75,705 283,518
Special-focus institutions7  45 2 7 10 11 13 2 0 0 0 87,296 311 2,349 8,022 18,205 44,145 14,264 0 0 0
Art, music, or design 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3,053 0 0 958 2,095 0 0 0 0 0
Business and management 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 8,879 0 0 891 0 0 7,988 0 0 0
Engineering or technology 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 6,458 0 0 0 0 6,458 0 0 0 0
Law 6 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2,708 153 908 644 1,003 0 0 0 0 0
Medical or other health 25 0 2 5 6 11 1 0 0 0 58,830 0 666 4,084 10,117 37,687 6,276 0 0 0
Tribal 8 1 2 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 7,368 158 775 1,445 4,990 0 0 0 0 0
2-year 920 8 25 37 205 222 226 140 47 10 6,397,765 1,195 9,410 29,478 366,627 815,619 1,633,138 1,916,645 1,136,425 489,228
                                         
Private nonprofit 1,666 288 256 233 472 247 99 50 12 9 3,996,089 31,336 85,559 170,750 780,783 859,901 688,786 676,299 287,647 415,028
Research university, very high2 34 0 0 0 1 0 7 16 7 3 564,781 0 0 0 2,209 0 49,316 218,013 171,404 123,839
Research university, high3 24 0 0 0 1 2 7 10 3 1 305,479 0 0 0 2,160 7,296 50,288 143,252 71,999 30,484
Doctoral/research university4 48 1 1 0 5 14 16 9 2 0 322,680 88 291 0 8,532 50,252 114,851 104,422 44,244 0
Master's5  363 2 7 13 112 148 65 12 0 4 1,586,703 359 2,337 9,666 205,265 531,265 447,751 165,979 0 224,081
Baccalaureate6 520 15 51 110 279 63 0 1 0 1 812,195 1,693 18,847 83,961 450,186 201,774 0 19,110 0 36,624
Special-focus institutions7  591 240 156 98 71 20 4 2 0 0 373,886 26,036 50,256 68,830 107,347 69,314 26,580 25,523 0 0
Art, music, or design 57 12 13 17 11 3 0 1 0 0 60,883 1,268 4,560 11,545 18,966 13,197 0 11,347 0 0
Business and management 40 9 11 11 4 3 2 0 0 0 40,475 1,236 3,668 7,843 5,871 8,933 12,924 0 0 0
Engineering or technology 13 6 2 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 20,274 618 722 1,300 3,458 0 0 14,176 0 0
Law 21 3 5 7 6 0 0 0 0 0 15,406 528 1,852 5,447 7,579 0 0 0 0 0
Medical or other health 141 22 43 29 36 10 1 0 0 0 132,164 2,581 14,635 20,921 51,951 35,141 6,935 0 0 0
Theological 298 180 78 26 10 3 1 0 0 0 92,618 18,978 23,551 17,489 16,614 9,265 6,721 0 0 0
Tribal 5 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 3,014 0 434 2,580 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other special focus 16 8 3 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 9,052 827 834 1,705 2,908 2,778 0 0 0 0
2-year 86 30 41 12 3 0 0 0 0 0 30,365 3,160 13,828 8,293 5,084 0 0 0 0 0
                                         
Private for-profit 1,327 314 501 310 133 35 12 10 5 7 1,556,265 36,189 168,549 211,234 191,799 116,245 79,439 134,475 112,929 505,406
Doctoral/research university4 11 0 0 4 3 0 1 1 0 2 112,052 0 0 3,124 4,322 0 6,197 11,160 0 87,249
Master's5  38 1 2 8 13 5 1 3 1 4 338,642 104 523 5,379 20,374 16,842 7,002 43,762 21,558 223,098
Baccalaureate6 126 13 43 46 18 2 2 1 1 0 125,153 1,358 15,380 29,603 24,745 5,916 14,684 10,932 22,535 0
Special-focus institutions7  547 125 212 109 64 22 7 4 3 1 694,063 14,590 70,213 74,445 95,052 73,429 46,337 56,102 68,836 195,059
Art, music, or design 89 16 25 18 24 4 1 1 0 0 96,215 1,771 8,821 13,430 34,590 13,008 9,383 15,212 0 0
Business and management 220 52 75 40 27 15 5 2 3 1 466,297 6,262 23,978 27,740 41,722 49,748 30,727 22,225 68,836 195,059
Engineering or technology 153 30 87 33 0 2 1 0 0 0 67,799 3,644 29,202 21,161 0 7,565 6,227 0 0 0
Law 9 1 2 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 6,492 118 802 2,074 3,498 0 0 0 0 0
Medical or other health 71 25 21 15 9 0 0 1 0 0 51,590 2,618 6,592 10,040 13,675 0 0 18,665 0 0
Other special focus 5 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 5,670 177 818 0 1,567 3,108 0 0 0 0
2-year 605 175 244 143 35 6 1 1 0 0 286,355 20,137 82,433 98,683 47,306 20,058 5,219 12,519 0 0
1 Excludes 13 institutions that had no enrollment.
2 Research universities with a very high level of research activity.
3 Research universities with a high level of research activity.
4 Institutions that award at least 20 doctor's degrees per year, but did not have a high level of research activity.
5 Institutions that award at least 50 master's degrees per year.
6 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.
7 Four-year institutions that 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://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2015, Fall Enrollment component. (This table was prepared October 2015.)