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Table 334.60. Total expenditures of private for-profit degree-granting postsecondary institutions, by purpose and classification of institution: 2015-16
Classification of institution Total Instruction Research Public service Academic support Student services Institutional support Auxiliary enterprises1 Net grant aid to students2 Hospitals Other
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
  In thousands of current dollars
Total $16,009,382 $4,250,720 $3,969 $13,716 $1,704,173 $3,099,337 $5,293,331 $399,202 $34,768 $63 $1,210,103
4-year 12,573,619 3,201,221 3,711 12,009 1,393,583 2,531,820 4,287,916 323,346 32,325 63 787,625
Doctoral/research3 3,134,785 675,581 488 7,570 383,716 589,939 1,161,685 38,931 37 0 276,837
Master's4 3,796,961 807,905 2,252 1,182 443,810 938,532 1,329,953 48,106 0 0 225,221
Baccalaureate5 1,914,012 567,617 419 981 180,828 370,230 629,080 56,857 22,079 0 85,921
Special-focus institutions6 3,727,862 1,150,118 552 2,277 385,229 633,119 1,167,197 179,452 10,209 63 199,646
Arts, music, or design 1,650,040 512,011 0 10 77,245 294,116 578,883 116,215 445 0 71,116
Business and management 526,163 125,387 0 89 76,492 122,214 152,120 18,558 0 0 31,304
Engineering and other
       technology-related
92,365 25,788 76 9 6,945 15,894 32,230 4,990 115 0 6,316
Law 106,505 25,862 0 0 13,383 6,980 48,995 58 9,491 0 1,736
Medical schools and centers and
       other heath professions
       schools
1,303,200 444,437 476 2,169 207,450 189,887 338,370 38,317 158 63 81,873
Other special focus 49,590 16,632 0 0 3,715 4,028 16,600 1,314 0 0 7,300
2-year 3,435,762 1,049,499 257 1,706 310,590 567,517 1,005,415 75,857 2,443 0 422,478
High transfer and mixed
       transfer/career and technical
       institutions7
146,178 50,437 60 384 10,472 32,346 27,883 8,349 26 0 16,220
High career and technical
       institutions8
1,116,005 328,895 81 310 103,467 194,872 298,734 20,861 1,179 0 167,605
Special-focus: health professions 1,389,572 451,250 67 860 134,628 227,523 403,547 18,566 412 0 152,720
Special-focus: other 784,007 218,916 49 152 62,023 112,776 275,252 28,080 826 0 85,933
  Percentage distribution
Total 100.00 26.55 0.02 0.09 10.64 19.36 33.06 2.49 0.22 # 7.56
4-year 100.00 25.46 0.03 0.10 11.08 20.14 34.10 2.57 0.26 # 6.26
Doctoral/research3 100.00 21.55 0.02 0.24 12.24 18.82 37.06 1.24 # 0.00 8.83
Master's4 100.00 21.28 0.06 0.03 11.69 24.72 35.03 1.27 0.00 0.00 5.93
Baccalaureate5 100.00 29.66 0.02 0.05 9.45 19.34 32.87 2.97 1.15 0.00 4.49
Special-focus institutions6 100.00 30.85 0.01 0.06 10.33 16.98 31.31 4.81 0.27 # 5.36
Arts, music, or design 100.00 31.03 0.00 # 4.68 17.82 35.08 7.04 0.03 0.00 4.31
Business and management 100.00 23.83 0.00 0.02 14.54 23.23 28.91 3.53 0.00 0.00 5.95
Engineering and other
       technology-related
100.00 27.92 0.08 0.01 7.52 17.21 34.89 5.40 0.12 0.00 6.84
Law 100.00 24.28 0.00 0.00 12.57 6.55 46.00 0.05 8.91 0.00 1.63
Medical schools and centers and
       other heath professions
       schools
100.00 34.10 0.04 0.17 15.92 14.57 25.96 2.94 0.01 # 6.28
Other special focus 100.00 33.54 0.00 0.00 7.49 8.12 33.47 2.65 0.00 0.00 14.72
2-year 100.00 30.55 0.01 0.05 9.04 16.52 29.26 2.21 0.07 0.00 12.30
High transfer and mixed
       transfer/career and technical
       institutions7
100.00 34.50 0.04 0.26 7.16 22.13 19.07 5.71 0.02 0.00 11.10
High career and technical
       institutions8
100.00 29.47 0.01 0.03 9.27 17.46 26.77 1.87 0.11 0.00 15.02
Special-focus: health professions 100.00 32.47 # 0.06 9.69 16.37 29.04 1.34 0.03 0.00 10.99
Special-focus: other 100.00 27.92 0.01 0.02 7.91 14.38 35.11 3.58 0.11 0.00 10.96
  Revenue per full-time-equivalent student in current dollars
Total $16,189 $4,298 $4 $14 $1,723 $3,134 $5,353 $404 $35 $# $1,224
4-year 15,916 4,052 5 15 1,764 3,205 5,428 409 41 # 997
Doctoral/research3 11,050 2,381 2 27 1,353 2,080 4,095 137 # 0 976
Master's4 15,190 3,232 9 5 1,775 3,755 5,320 192 0 0 901
Baccalaureate5 19,454 5,769 4 10 1,838 3,763 6,394 578 224 0 873
Special-focus institutions6 23,598 7,280 3 14 2,439 4,008 7,388 1,136 65 # 1,264
Arts, music, or design 28,182 8,745 0 0 1,319 5,023 9,887 1,985 8 0 1,215
Business and management 16,461 3,923 0 3 2,393 3,823 4,759 581 0 0 979
Engineering and other
       technology-related
25,438 7,102 21 3 1,913 4,377 8,876 1,374 32 0 1,740
Law 44,825 10,885 0 0 5,632 2,938 20,621 24 3,995 0 731
Medical schools and centers and
       other heath professions
       schools
22,500 7,673 8 37 3,582 3,278 5,842 662 3 1 1,414
Other special focus 14,020 4,702 0 0 1,050 1,139 4,693 371 0 0 2,064
2-year 17,276 5,277 1 9 1,562 2,854 5,055 381 12 0 2,124
High transfer and mixed
       transfer/career and technical
       institutions7
17,788 6,137 7 47 1,274 3,936 3,393 1,016 3 0 1,974
High career and technical
       institutions8
17,271 5,090 1 5 1,601 3,016 4,623 323 18 0 2,594
Special-focus: health professions 16,965 5,509 1 10 1,644 2,778 4,927 227 5 0 1,865
Special-focus: other 17,762 4,960 1 3 1,405 2,555 6,236 636 19 0 1,947
#Rounds to zero.
1 Essentially self-supporting operations of institutions that furnish a service to students, faculty, or staff, such as residence halls and food services.
2 Excludes tuition, fee, and auxiliary enterprise allowances and agency transactions, such as student awards made from contributed funds or grant funds. These exclusions account for the majority of total student grants.
3 Institutions that award at least 20 research/scholarship doctor's degrees per year, but did not have high levels of research activity.
4 Institutions that award at least 50 master's and fewer than 20 doctor's degrees per year.
5 Institutions that primarily emphasize undergraduate education. In addition to institutions that primarily award bachelor's degrees, also includes institutions classified as 4-year in the IPEDS system, but classified as 2-year baccalaureate/associate's colleges in the Carnegie Classification system because they primarily award associate's degrees.
6 Four-year institutions that award degrees primarily in single fields of study, such as medicine, business, fine arts, theology, and engineering.
7 High transfer institutions award less than 30 percent of their awards in career and technical programs. Mixed transfer/career and technical institutions award 30 to 49 percent of their awards in career and technical programs.
8 High career and technical institutions award 50 percent or more of their awards in career and technical programs.
NOTE: Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Further information on the Carnegie 2015 classification system used in this table may be obtained from http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/. Data in this table pertain to institutions' fiscal years that end in the academic year noted. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2016, Fall Enrollment component; and Spring 2017, Finance component. (This table was prepared January 2018.)

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