Table 303.50.

Total fall enrollment in degree-granting postsecondary institutions, by level of enrollment, control and level of institution, attendance status, and age of student: 2017

Attendance status and age of student	Undergraduate										Postbaccalaureate
	Total	Public			Private nonprofit			Private for-profit			Total	Public	Private nonprofit	Private for-profit
		Total	4-year	2-year	Total	4-year	2-year	Total	4-year	2-year
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
All students	16,760,331	13,100,953	7,394,275	5,706,678	2,817,017	2,768,627	48,390	842,361	655,471	186,890	3,005,267	1,459,202	1,289,460	256,605
Under 18	1,230,274	1,128,680	377,282	751,398	96,905	96,246	659	4,689	3,577	1,112	145	42	100	3
18 and 19	4,444,557	3,526,056	2,172,387	1,353,669	859,887	852,686	7,201	58,614	36,724	21,890	998	448	522	28
20 and 21	4,060,204	3,132,761	2,172,028	960,733	846,904	841,486	5,418	80,539	54,176	26,363	36,312	19,738	16,113	461
22 to 24	2,542,471	2,063,678	1,295,451	768,227	362,734	355,690	7,044	116,059	83,076	32,983	660,801	358,850	289,071	12,880
25 to 29	1,729,875	1,336,473	630,442	706,031	209,884	200,225	9,659	183,518	143,558	39,960	962,511	492,268	423,618	46,625
30 to 34	944,490	672,970	282,854	390,116	134,719	128,676	6,043	136,801	113,317	23,484	475,932	234,930	196,011	44,991
35 to 39	633,621	431,135	172,504	258,631	103,076	98,888	4,188	99,410	83,806	15,604	298,710	134,919	121,428	42,363
40 to 49	725,529	485,482	185,088	300,394	128,763	123,616	5,147	111,284	94,468	16,816	362,647	146,384	150,379	65,884
50 to 64	371,156	261,608	88,680	172,928	62,437	59,709	2,728	47,111	39,701	7,410	188,000	66,195	81,772	40,033
65 and over	53,499	47,262	13,342	33,920	4,426	4,211	215	1,811	1,465	346	13,538	5,013	5,720	2,805
Age unknown	24,655	14,848	4,217	10,631	7,282	7,194	88	2,525	1,603	922	5,673	415	4,726	532
Full-time	10,370,665	7,516,055	5,498,470	2,017,585	2,299,345	2,258,255	41,090	555,265	385,963	169,302	1,706,639	812,018	782,941	111,680
Under 18	220,568	184,668	103,439	81,229	33,761	33,495	266	2,139	1,052	1,087	47	18	28	1
18 and 19	3,693,798	2,811,170	1,981,161	830,009	830,031	823,198	6,833	52,597	31,598	20,999	827	404	405	18
20 and 21	3,234,486	2,355,461	1,921,933	433,528	813,321	808,612	4,709	65,704	41,208	24,496	32,762	17,969	14,457	336
22 to 24	1,539,873	1,163,070	926,697	236,373	293,606	287,792	5,814	83,197	53,351	29,846	529,068	285,767	235,523	7,778
25 to 29	761,146	515,230	320,767	194,463	124,780	116,648	8,132	121,136	85,274	35,862	612,001	302,645	286,497	22,859
30 to 34	361,656	208,214	112,576	95,638	69,388	64,320	5,068	84,054	63,177	20,877	230,371	107,172	103,883	19,316
35 to 39	221,706	114,384	57,328	57,056	48,999	45,511	3,488	58,323	44,432	13,891	117,236	46,241	53,207	17,788
40 to 49	228,966	109,930	51,968	57,962	57,122	52,825	4,297	61,914	47,086	14,828	121,675	37,517	57,618	26,540
50 to 64	91,789	44,192	18,734	25,458	23,804	21,547	2,257	23,793	17,549	6,244	57,021	13,449	27,963	15,609
65 and over	5,176	3,296	1,022	2,274	954	776	178	926	623	303	3,803	752	1,909	1,142
Age unknown	11,501	6,440	2,845	3,595	3,579	3,531	48	1,482	613	869	1,828	84	1,451	293
Part-time	6,389,666	5,584,898	1,895,805	3,689,093	517,672	510,372	7,300	287,096	269,508	17,588	1,298,628	647,184	506,519	144,925
Under 18	1,009,706	944,012	273,843	670,169	63,144	62,751	393	2,550	2,525	25	98	24	72	2
18 and 19	750,759	714,886	191,226	523,660	29,856	29,488	368	6,017	5,126	891	171	44	117	10
20 and 21	825,718	777,300	250,095	527,205	33,583	32,874	709	14,835	12,968	1,867	3,550	1,769	1,656	125
22 to 24	1,002,598	900,608	368,754	531,854	69,128	67,898	1,230	32,862	29,725	3,137	131,733	73,083	53,548	5,102
25 to 29	968,729	821,243	309,675	511,568	85,104	83,577	1,527	62,382	58,284	4,098	350,510	189,623	137,121	23,766
30 to 34	582,834	464,756	170,278	294,478	65,331	64,356	975	52,747	50,140	2,607	245,561	127,758	92,128	25,675
35 to 39	411,915	316,751	115,176	201,575	54,077	53,377	700	41,087	39,374	1,713	181,474	88,678	68,221	24,575
40 to 49	496,563	375,552	133,120	242,432	71,641	70,791	850	49,370	47,382	1,988	240,972	108,867	92,761	39,344
50 to 64	279,367	217,416	69,946	147,470	38,633	38,162	471	23,318	22,152	1,166	130,979	52,746	53,809	24,424
65 and over	48,323	43,966	12,320	31,646	3,472	3,435	37	885	842	43	9,735	4,261	3,811	1,663
Age unknown	13,154	8,408	1,372	7,036	3,703	3,663	40	1,043	990	53	3,845	331	3,275	239
	Percentage distribution of students with known age1
All students	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Under 18	7.4	8.6	5.1	13.2	3.4	3.5	1.4	0.6	0.5	0.6	#	#	#	#
18 and 19	26.6	26.9	29.4	23.8	30.6	30.9	14.9	7.0	5.6	11.8	#	#	#	#
20 and 21	24.3	23.9	29.4	16.9	30.1	30.5	11.2	9.6	8.3	14.2	1.2	1.4	1.3	0.2
22 to 24	15.2	15.8	17.5	13.5	12.9	12.9	14.6	13.8	12.7	17.7	22.0	24.6	22.5	5.0
25 to 29	10.3	10.2	8.5	12.4	7.5	7.3	20.0	21.9	22.0	21.5	32.1	33.7	33.0	18.2
30 to 34	5.6	5.1	3.8	6.8	4.8	4.7	12.5	16.3	17.3	12.6	15.9	16.1	15.3	17.6
35 to 39	3.8	3.3	2.3	4.5	3.7	3.6	8.7	11.8	12.8	8.4	10.0	9.2	9.5	16.5
40 to 49	4.3	3.7	2.5	5.3	4.6	4.5	10.7	13.3	14.4	9.0	12.1	10.0	11.7	25.7
50 to 64	2.2	2.0	1.2	3.0	2.2	2.2	5.6	5.6	6.1	4.0	6.3	4.5	6.4	15.6
65 and over	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.6	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.5	0.3	0.4	1.1
Full-time	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Under 18	2.1	2.5	1.9	4.0	1.5	1.5	0.6	0.4	0.3	0.6	#	#	#	#
18 and 19	35.7	37.4	36.0	41.2	36.2	36.5	16.6	9.5	8.2	12.5	#	#	0.1	#
20 and 21	31.2	31.4	35.0	21.5	35.4	35.9	11.5	11.9	10.7	14.5	1.9	2.2	1.8	0.3
22 to 24	14.9	15.5	16.9	11.7	12.8	12.8	14.2	15.0	13.8	17.7	31.0	35.2	30.1	7.0
25 to 29	7.3	6.9	5.8	9.7	5.4	5.2	19.8	21.9	22.1	21.3	35.9	37.3	36.7	20.5
30 to 34	3.5	2.8	2.0	4.7	3.0	2.9	12.3	15.2	16.4	12.4	13.5	13.2	13.3	17.3
35 to 39	2.1	1.5	1.0	2.8	2.1	2.0	8.5	10.5	11.5	8.2	6.9	5.7	6.8	16.0
40 to 49	2.2	1.5	0.9	2.9	2.5	2.3	10.5	11.2	12.2	8.8	7.1	4.6	7.4	23.8
50 to 64	0.9	0.6	0.3	1.3	1.0	1.0	5.5	4.3	4.6	3.7	3.3	1.7	3.6	14.0
65 and over	#	#	#	0.1	#	#	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	1.0
Part-time	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Under 18	15.8	16.9	14.5	18.2	12.3	12.4	5.4	0.9	0.9	0.1	#	#	#	#
18 and 19	11.8	12.8	10.1	14.2	5.8	5.8	5.1	2.1	1.9	5.1	#	#	#	#
20 and 21	12.9	13.9	13.2	14.3	6.5	6.5	9.8	5.2	4.8	10.6	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.1
22 to 24	15.7	16.2	19.5	14.4	13.4	13.4	16.9	11.5	11.1	17.9	10.2	11.3	10.6	3.5
25 to 29	15.2	14.7	16.3	13.9	16.6	16.5	21.0	21.8	21.7	23.4	27.1	29.3	27.2	16.4
30 to 34	9.1	8.3	9.0	8.0	12.7	12.7	13.4	18.4	18.7	14.9	19.0	19.8	18.3	17.7
35 to 39	6.5	5.7	6.1	5.5	10.5	10.5	9.6	14.4	14.7	9.8	14.0	13.7	13.6	17.0
40 to 49	7.8	6.7	7.0	6.6	13.9	14.0	11.7	17.3	17.6	11.3	18.6	16.8	18.4	27.2
50 to 64	4.4	3.9	3.7	4.0	7.5	7.5	6.5	8.2	8.2	6.6	10.1	8.2	10.7	16.9
65 and over	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.9	0.7	0.7	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.8	0.7	0.8	1.1

#Rounds to zero.

1 Percentage distributions exclude students whose age is unknown.

NOTE: Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. 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 2018, Fall Enrollment component. (This table was prepared October 2018.)