Table 303.90.

Fall enrollment and number of degree-granting postsecondary institutions, by control and religious affiliation of institution: Selected years, 1980 through 2017

Control and religious affiliation of institution	Total enrollment						Enrollment, fall 2017					Number of institutions1
	Fall 1980	Fall 1990	Fall 2000	Fall 2010	Fall 2015	Fall 2016	Total	Full-time		Part-time
								Males	Females	Males	Females	Fall 1980	Fall 1990	Fall 2000	Fall 2010	Fall 2017
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	19,988,204	19,846,904	19,765,598	5,424,575	6,652,729	3,143,057	4,545,237	3,226	3,501	4,056	4,589	4,298
Public institutions	9,457,394	10,844,717	11,752,786	15,142,171	14,572,843	14,585,840	14,560,155	3,857,945	4,470,128	2,619,975	3,612,107	1,493	1,548	1,676	1,652	1,626
Federal	50,989	50,669	16,917	21,610	19,700	19,804	20,171	12,744	5,788	547	1,092	12	17	12	14	14
State	(2 )	7,181,380	9,548,090	12,364,881	12,045,013	12,089,310	12,103,676	3,410,243	3,980,128	1,972,380	2,740,925	(2 )	978	1,355	1,331	1,314
Local	(2 )	3,508,941	2,078,090	2,542,044	2,309,275	2,276,473	2,235,556	383,815	423,708	611,337	816,696	(2 )	523	277	261	257
Other public	9,406,405	103,727	109,689	213,636	198,855	200,253	200,752	51,143	60,504	35,711	53,394	1,481	30	32	46	41
Private institutions	2,639,501	2,973,920	3,559,503	5,877,267	5,415,361	5,261,064	5,205,443	1,566,630	2,182,601	523,082	933,130	1,733	1,953	2,380	2,937	2,672
Independent nonprofit	1,521,614	1,474,818	1,577,242	1,994,900	2,171,490	2,190,233	2,220,512	739,359	945,141	207,109	328,903	795	709	729	736	809
For-profit	111,714	213,693	450,084	2,022,785	1,349,470	1,182,108	1,098,966	237,634	429,311	131,638	300,383	164	322	724	1,310	985
Religiously affiliated3	1,006,173	1,285,409	1,532,177	1,859,582	1,894,401	1,888,723	1,885,965	589,637	808,149	184,335	303,844	774	922	927	891	878
Advent Christian Church	143	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	1,091	88	34	1,536	1,579	1,547	1,462	741	685	22	14	3	1	1	3	3
African Methodist Episcopal	4,541	3,220	5,980	2,674	4,359	5,379	5,887	1,382	1,505	1,362	1,638	6	5	6	5	6
American Baptist	6,131	10,800	15,410	15,120	13,397	12,801	12,500	4,049	5,356	1,063	2,032	11	15	17	18	17
American Evangelical Lutheran Church	—	—	743	1,340	1,373	1,295	1,394	646	690	22	36	—	—	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	16,599	17,780	19,241	5,848	7,756	2,510	3,127	10	11	14	16	13
Baptist	38,231	99,510	107,610	174,538	108,717	111,744	111,158	34,438	46,988	12,762	16,970	33	69	68	69	64
Brethren Church	3,925	958	2,088	8,506	8,227	9,135	8,627	2,712	3,282	1,438	1,195	3	3	3	3	2
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	5,916	6,094	6,122	1,771	2,280	825	1,246	3	4	4	4	4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	14,913	30,397	35,984	52,839	46,157	47,970	46,260	13,629	20,046	5,256	7,329	12	18	16	18	17
Christian Churches and Churches of     Christ	1,342	2,263	7,277	10,074	10,183	10,061	9,970	3,560	3,450	1,366	1,594	7	8	18	18	17
Christian Methodist Episcopal	2,486	2,174	1,502	4,817	4,102	4,207	4,062	2,090	1,775	95	102	4	4	1	3	3
Christian Reformed Church	5,408	4,488	5,999	5,625	5,748	5,710	5,714	2,486	2,628	317	283	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	17,745	17,768	16,962	4,857	7,655	1,997	2,453	9	9	7	7	9
Church of New Jerusalem	170	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—
Church of the Brethren	8,482	4,463	4,187	6,154	6,379	6,484	6,401	2,649	3,166	247	339	6	5	4	5	6
Church of the Nazarene	11,716	10,779	16,661	21,144	21,726	22,572	23,267	6,290	9,880	2,398	4,699	10	9	12	10	10
Churches of Christ	9,343	14,611	30,140	35,538	35,701	36,299	36,136	11,731	16,119	3,219	5,067	9	19	19	17	18
Cumberland Presbyterian	594	746	1,112	4,652	6,585	6,142	6,007	1,947	2,349	646	1,065	2	2	2	2	2
Episcopal Church, Reformed	67	—	—	—	1,282	1,242	1,286	70	320	111	785	1	—	—	—	2
Evangelical Christian	—	—	—	—	80,494	77,375	76,649	16,333	23,045	15,267	22,004	—	—	—	—	3
Evangelical Congregational Church	80	88	148	153	124	120	111	20	10	55	26	1	1	1	1	1
Evangelical Covenant Church of America	1,401	1,035	2,387	3,233	3,225	3,122	3,011	754	1,265	318	674	1	1	1	1	2
Evangelical Free Church of America	833	2,355	4,022	2,926	2,490	2,391	2,409	705	421	773	510	1	2	3	2	2
Evangelical Lutheran Church	743	49,210	49,085	56,162	50,249	49,863	49,960	19,577	25,487	1,716	3,180	3	33	34	33	27
Free Methodist	5,543	5,902	7,323	12,270	11,978	11,324	10,965	3,040	5,912	626	1,387	5	3	4	5	5
Free Will Baptist Church	1,132	1,177	2,378	528	693	713	704	281	238	91	94	4	3	4	3	3
Friends United Meeting	1,109	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—
Friends	5,157	5,844	10,898	13,876	11,651	11,636	11,356	4,173	5,039	858	1,286	5	6	8	7	7
General Baptist	—	—	—	—	1,450	1,469	1,303	293	357	290	363	—	—	—	—	1
General Conference Mennonite Church	820	1,243	1,059	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	2	1	—	—
Greek Orthodox	204	148	132	220	193	195	170	116	46	6	2	1	1	1	1	1
Interdenominational	1,254	11,103	9,788	33,778	41,813	41,113	41,173	12,680	17,305	5,346	5,842	4	17	14	31	34
Jewish	5,738	12,217	14,182	12,755	14,758	13,846	14,064	10,203	2,523	383	955	24	63	62	36	34
Latter-Day Saints	39,172	42,274	44,680	53,514	82,143	84,046	91,403	25,222	26,066	17,013	23,102	4	4	4	4	4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	11,727	13,827	18,866	28,255	38,050	36,542	36,263	8,331	14,513	4,429	8,990	15	14	13	12	12
Lutheran Church in America	23,877	5,796	4,322	8,240	8,613	8,708	8,181	3,224	4,171	266	520	20	5	2	3	3
Mennonite Brethren Church	1,344	1,864	2,390	4,136	4,071	4,291	4,875	1,146	2,271	420	1,038	3	3	3	3	2
Mennonite Church	4,008	2,859	3,553	4,263	4,193	4,131	3,886	1,269	1,819	255	543	6	5	5	6	6
Missionary Church Inc.	487	699	1,647	2,152	1,719	1,639	1,513	426	657	127	303	1	1	1	1	1
Moravian Church	2,434	2,511	2,939	3,095	3,348	3,513	3,430	788	1,834	178	630	2	2	2	2	2
Multiple Protestant denominations	5,526	211	4,690	5,350	4,881	4,758	4,766	1,120	1,546	1,206	894	8	1	7	6	6
North American Baptist	155	—	124	120	201	207	229	13	14	142	60	1	—	1	1	1
Original Free Will Baptist	—	—	—	3,855	3,371	3,430	3,451	625	916	558	1,352	—	—	—	1	1
Pentecostal Holiness Church	767	566	976	1,272	1,630	1,684	1,623	751	629	110	133	3	3	2	3	2
Presbyterian	—	—	—	—	2,988	2,965	3,080	1,024	1,510	175	371	—	—	—	—	3
Presbyterian U.S.A.	47,144	77,700	78,950	85,719	84,218	82,215	80,867	29,485	38,324	3,983	9,075	57	70	64	58	56
Presbyterian Church in America	—	1,877	4,499	2,071	1,637	1,611	1,585	639	607	198	141	—	1	5	2	2
Protestant Episcopal	5,396	4,559	5,479	5,006	3,523	3,687	3,719	1,706	1,717	150	146	12	9	12	11	8
Protestant, other	4,072	38,136	30,116	13,450	18,380	19,342	19,215	5,534	7,348	2,772	3,561	11	44	34	23	26
Reformed Church in America	2,713	5,525	6,002	6,555	6,291	6,205	6,125	2,304	3,074	281	466	4	4	5	5	5
Reformed Presbyterian Church	2,014	1,556	2,355	2,982	2,561	2,585	2,393	1,049	967	214	163	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	729,936	720,808	711,948	217,734	322,129	57,644	114,441	229	239	239	237	229
Russian Orthodox	47	38	106	60	77	75	89	66	5	16	2	1	1	1	1	1
Seventh-Day Adventists	19,168	15,771	19,223	25,430	24,277	23,914	23,602	7,461	10,885	1,844	3,412	11	11	13	14	13
Southern Baptist	85,281	49,493	54,275	49,936	54,955	55,308	59,959	17,091	21,038	9,803	12,027	54	29	32	22	22
Undenominational	—	6,758	23,573	27,748	33,487	35,365	36,005	8,180	12,702	5,966	9,157	—	14	16	16	20
Unitarian Universalist	87	82	132	166	183	181	178	31	85	19	43	2	2	2	2	2
United Brethren Church	545	601	938	1,260	1,252	1,295	1,321	427	648	94	152	1	1	1	1	1
United Church of Christ	14,169	20,175	23,709	20,537	16,248	15,641	15,324	5,082	6,234	1,318	2,690	16	18	18	17	14
United Methodist	127,099	148,851	171,109	206,744	200,314	200,792	200,277	72,160	95,274	12,079	20,764	91	96	100	96	94
Wesleyan Church	3,583	5,311	11,128	20,670	19,726	19,240	18,608	5,158	10,342	1,019	2,089	5	4	4	6	8
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	808	931	1,660	1,677	2,088	2,051	2,095	781	895	202	217	1	3	2	2	2
Other religiously affiliated	462	5,743	2,534	4,778	5,147	5,097	5,624	1,739	2,351	469	1,065	1	9	4	11	12

—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 2018, Fall Enrollment component. (This table was prepared April 2019.)