Table 303.90.

Fall enrollment and number of degree-granting postsecondary institutions, by control and religious affiliation of institution: Selected years, 1980 through 2015

Control and religious affiliation of institution	Total enrollment						Enrollment, fall 2015					Number of institutions1
	Fall 1980	Fall 1990	Fall 2000	Fall 2010	Fall 2013	Fall 2014	Total	Full-time		Part-time
								Males	Females	Males	Females	Fall 1980	Fall 1990	Fall 2000	Fall 2010	Fall 2015
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	20,376,677	20,207,369	19,977,270	5,560,535	6,730,294	3,160,868	4,525,573	3,226	3,501	4,056	4,589	4,562
Public institutions	9,457,394	10,844,717	11,752,786	15,142,171	14,746,848	14,655,015	14,568,103	3,898,176	4,456,499	2,619,232	3,594,196	1,493	1,548	1,676	1,652	1,620
Federal	50,989	50,669	16,917	21,610	19,792	19,791	19,700	12,684	5,293	583	1,140	12	17	12	14	14
State	(2 )	7,181,380	9,548,090	12,364,881	12,120,173	12,076,058	12,047,827	3,425,204	3,939,706	1,966,875	2,716,042	(2 )	978	1,355	1,331	1,307
Local	(2 )	3,508,941	2,078,090	2,542,044	2,400,021	2,355,444	2,301,721	408,634	451,264	616,599	825,224	(2 )	523	277	261	258
Other public	9,406,405	103,727	109,689	213,636	206,862	203,722	198,855	51,654	60,236	35,175	51,790	1,481	30	32	46	41
Private institutions	2,639,501	2,973,920	3,559,503	5,877,267	5,629,829	5,552,354	5,409,167	1,662,359	2,273,795	541,636	931,377	1,733	1,953	2,380	2,937	2,942
Independent nonprofit	1,521,614	1,474,818	1,577,242	1,994,900	2,085,468	2,107,949	2,169,211	735,209	905,237	206,170	322,595	795	709	729	736	815
For-profit	111,714	213,693	450,084	2,022,785	1,658,439	1,556,265	1,345,795	328,623	558,399	154,991	303,782	164	322	724	1,310	1,244
Religiously affiliated3	1,006,173	1,285,409	1,532,177	1,859,582	1,885,922	1,888,140	1,894,161	598,527	810,159	180,475	305,000	774	922	927	891	883
Advent Christian Church	143	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	1,091	88	34	1,536	1,541	1,683	1,579	770	752	35	22	3	1	1	3	3
African Methodist Episcopal	4,541	3,220	5,980	2,674	2,700	2,777	4,359	1,270	1,569	712	808	6	5	6	5	6
American Baptist	6,131	10,800	15,410	15,120	13,990	13,917	13,397	4,156	5,370	1,331	2,540	11	15	17	18	18
American Evangelical Lutheran Church	—	—	743	1,340	1,341	1,320	1,373	638	653	31	51	—	—	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	15,958	15,801	16,618	5,528	6,992	1,859	2,239	10	11	14	16	15
Baptist	38,231	99,510	107,610	174,538	111,587	106,897	108,721	35,063	47,028	10,515	16,115	33	69	68	69	63
Brethren Church	3,925	958	2,088	8,506	7,462	7,829	8,227	2,214	3,230	1,502	1,281	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	6,530	6,361	5,916	1,897	2,509	616	894	3	4	4	4	4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	14,913	30,397	35,984	52,839	47,277	47,113	46,156	14,252	21,224	4,219	6,461	12	18	16	18	17
Christian Churches and Churches of        Christ	1,342	2,263	7,277	10,074	10,536	10,349	10,179	3,880	3,849	1,224	1,226	7	8	18	18	18
Christian Methodist Episcopal	2,486	2,174	1,502	4,817	4,191	3,857	4,102	2,133	1,818	74	77	4	4	1	3	3
Christian Reformed Church	5,408	4,488	5,999	5,625	5,770	5,743	5,748	2,536	2,791	211	210	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	17,977	17,946	17,745	5,589	8,272	1,740	2,144	9	9	7	7	9
Church of New Jerusalem	170	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—
Church of the Brethren	8,482	4,463	4,187	6,154	6,245	6,243	6,379	2,636	3,162	202	379	6	5	4	5	6
Church of the Nazarene	11,716	10,779	16,661	21,144	21,597	21,563	21,822	6,317	10,146	1,967	3,392	10	9	12	10	10
Churches of Christ	9,343	14,611	30,140	35,538	35,281	35,122	35,701	11,652	15,510	3,334	5,205	9	19	19	17	17
Cumberland Presbyterian	594	746	1,112	4,652	6,926	6,508	6,218	2,098	2,694	570	856	2	2	2	2	2
Episcopal Church, Reformed	67	—	—	—	1,238	1,221	1,282	80	369	104	729	1	—	—	—	2
Evangelical Christian	—	—	—	—	77,338	81,459	80,494	16,044	21,866	17,056	25,528	—	—	—	—	1
Evangelical Congregational Church	80	88	148	153	113	123	124	16	18	59	31	1	1	1	1	1
Evangelical Covenant Church of America	1,401	1,035	2,387	3,233	3,189	3,253	3,225	775	1,278	356	816	1	1	1	1	2
Evangelical Free Church of America	833	2,355	4,022	2,926	2,472	2,495	2,490	703	499	798	490	1	2	3	2	2
Evangelical Lutheran Church	743	49,210	49,085	56,162	51,904	50,905	50,249	19,912	25,109	1,936	3,292	3	33	34	33	30
Free Methodist	5,543	5,902	7,323	12,270	12,372	12,184	12,007	3,286	6,182	770	1,769	5	3	4	5	5
Free Will Baptist Church	1,132	1,177	2,378	528	570	583	693	275	247	100	71	4	3	4	3	3
Friends United Meeting	1,109	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—
Friends	5,157	5,844	10,898	13,876	12,555	12,203	11,651	4,397	5,115	850	1,289	5	6	8	7	7
General Baptist	—	—	—	—	—	2,086	1,450	336	358	311	445	—	—	—	—	1
General Conference Mennonite Church	820	1,243	1,059	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	2	1	—	—
Greek Orthodox	204	148	132	220	208	183	193	134	48	10	1	1	1	1	1	1
Interdenominational	1,254	11,103	9,788	33,778	39,371	39,716	41,815	13,247	17,145	5,322	6,101	4	17	14	31	34
Jewish	5,738	12,217	14,182	12,755	15,390	14,873	14,758	9,886	3,532	381	959	24	63	62	36	36
Latter-Day Saints	39,172	42,274	44,680	53,514	63,733	71,901	82,143	25,204	24,986	13,851	18,102	4	4	4	4	4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	11,727	13,827	18,866	28,255	34,329	36,350	38,050	8,934	16,008	4,492	8,616	15	14	13	12	12
Lutheran Church in America	23,877	5,796	4,322	8,240	8,732	8,702	8,613	3,501	4,214	338	560	20	5	2	3	3
Mennonite Brethren Church	1,344	1,864	2,390	4,136	4,129	4,224	4,071	1,021	1,846	392	812	3	3	3	3	2
Mennonite Church	4,008	2,859	3,553	4,263	4,265	4,223	4,193	1,368	1,846	282	697	6	5	5	6	6
Missionary Church Inc	487	699	1,647	2,152	1,804	1,792	1,719	462	751	168	338	1	1	1	1	1
Moravian Church	2,434	2,511	2,939	3,095	3,024	3,088	3,348	835	1,720	160	633	2	2	2	2	2
Multiple Protestant denominations	5,526	211	4,690	5,350	5,126	5,013	4,881	1,172	1,522	1,322	865	8	1	7	6	6
North American Baptist	155	—	124	120	143	195	201	50	17	79	55	1	—	1	1	1
Original Free Will Baptist	—	—	—	3,855	3,414	3,456	3,371	575	829	547	1,420	—	—	—	1	1
Pentecostal Holiness Church	767	566	976	1,272	1,653	1,629	1,630	728	635	114	153	3	3	2	3	2
Presbyterian	—	—	—	—	2,882	2,982	2,988	925	1,507	185	371	—	—	—	—	2
Presbyterian U.S.A	47,144	77,700	78,950	85,719	83,722	84,303	84,201	30,843	40,171	4,085	9,102	57	70	64	58	56
Presbyterian Church in America	—	1,877	4,499	2,071	1,775	1,714	1,637	654	674	186	123	—	1	5	2	2
Protestant Episcopal	5,396	4,559	5,479	5,006	3,935	3,585	3,523	1,592	1,595	164	172	12	9	12	11	9
Protestant, other	4,072	38,136	30,116	13,450	16,884	17,572	18,380	5,514	6,867	2,716	3,283	11	44	34	23	26
Reformed Church in America	2,713	5,525	6,002	6,555	6,453	6,521	6,291	2,439	3,294	221	337	4	4	5	5	5
Reformed Presbyterian Church	2,014	1,556	2,355	2,982	2,751	2,546	2,561	1,096	1,065	222	178	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	742,189	734,339	729,924	220,147	322,309	62,264	125,204	229	239	239	237	233
Russian Orthodox	47	38	106	60	81	88	77	69	4	4	0	1	1	1	1	1
Seventh-Day Adventists	19,168	15,771	19,223	25,430	25,590	24,918	24,277	7,825	10,967	2,025	3,460	11	11	13	14	13
Southern Baptist	85,281	49,493	54,275	49,936	55,028	55,323	54,955	16,333	20,254	7,768	10,600	54	29	32	22	23
Undenominational	—	6,758	23,573	27,748	32,391	32,811	33,486	8,473	12,481	5,377	7,155	—	14	16	16	18
Unitarian Universalist	87	82	132	166	174	174	183	32	78	27	46	2	2	2	2	2
United Brethren Church	545	601	938	1,260	1,124	1,209	1,252	428	629	71	124	1	1	1	1	1
United Church of Christ	14,169	20,175	23,709	20,537	16,846	16,574	16,241	5,097	6,106	1,759	3,279	16	18	18	17	14
United Methodist	127,099	148,851	171,109	206,744	203,115	203,419	200,333	73,385	94,227	11,842	20,879	91	96	100	96	94
Wesleyan Church	3,583	5,311	11,128	20,670	19,733	19,868	19,726	5,629	11,173	1,062	1,862	5	4	4	6	6
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	808	931	1,660	1,677	2,002	2,036	2,088	769	906	214	199	1	3	2	2	2
Other religiously affiliated	462	5,743	2,534	4,778	5,266	5,272	5,147	1,707	2,143	343	954	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 2016, Fall Enrollment component. (This table was prepared June 2017.)