Table 303.45.

Total fall enrollment in degree-granting postsecondary institutions, by level of enrollment, sex, attendance status, and age of student: 2013, 2015, and 2017

Attendance status and age of student	Fall 2013	Fall 2015			Fall 2017
	All levels	All levels			All levels			Undergraduate			Postbaccalaureate
	Total	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
All students	20,376,677	19,988,204	8,723,819	11,264,385	19,778,151	8,571,314	11,206,837	16,773,036	7,351,259	9,421,777	3,005,115	1,220,055	1,785,060
Under 18	878,766	1,053,854	435,452	618,402	1,233,155	506,387	726,768	1,233,021	506,327	726,694	134	60	74
18 and 19	4,265,916	4,341,382	1,954,795	2,386,587	4,446,105	1,994,211	2,451,894	4,445,215	1,993,914	2,451,301	890	297	593
20 and 21	4,086,686	4,078,990	1,849,082	2,229,908	4,096,336	1,844,738	2,251,598	4,059,944	1,831,887	2,228,057	36,392	12,851	23,541
22 to 24	3,431,880	3,324,891	1,540,990	1,783,901	3,204,527	1,471,011	1,733,516	2,541,944	1,208,478	1,333,466	662,583	262,533	400,050
25 to 29	2,856,287	2,778,912	1,227,002	1,551,910	2,694,183	1,167,840	1,526,343	1,732,765	752,678	980,087	961,418	415,162	546,256
30 to 34	1,641,631	1,511,847	644,424	867,423	1,421,657	597,664	823,993	946,325	389,598	556,727	475,332	208,066	267,266
35 to 39	1,033,809	973,402	384,395	589,007	933,343	366,653	566,690	634,889	246,082	388,807	298,454	120,571	177,883
40 to 49	1,346,668	1,190,153	428,681	761,472	1,090,103	389,284	700,819	727,226	260,318	466,908	362,877	128,966	233,911
50 to 64	717,355	627,528	214,632	412,896	560,173	192,051	368,122	372,091	128,351	243,740	188,082	63,700	124,382
65 and over	66,202	66,683	28,234	38,449	67,094	28,537	38,557	53,541	22,728	30,813	13,553	5,809	7,744
Age unknown	51,477	40,562	16,132	24,430	31,475	12,938	18,537	26,075	10,898	15,177	5,400	2,040	3,360
Full-time	12,596,610	12,287,512	5,558,447	6,729,065	12,076,141	5,423,955	6,652,186	10,371,863	4,683,715	5,688,148	1,704,278	740,240	964,038
Under 18	185,285	206,770	83,135	123,635	220,590	86,108	134,482	220,547	86,084	134,463	43	24	19
18 and 19	3,549,171	3,612,294	1,612,557	1,999,737	3,695,990	1,644,606	2,051,384	3,695,241	1,644,373	2,050,868	749	233	516
20 and 21	3,245,703	3,241,515	1,470,848	1,770,667	3,267,198	1,475,104	1,792,094	3,234,340	1,463,343	1,770,997	32,858	11,761	21,097
22 to 24	2,240,365	2,156,073	1,033,642	1,122,431	2,068,425	983,041	1,085,384	1,538,218	768,645	769,573	530,207	214,396	315,811
25 to 29	1,497,997	1,442,151	681,881	760,270	1,372,010	636,740	735,270	761,468	353,742	407,726	610,542	282,998	327,544
30 to 34	724,235	649,695	296,410	353,285	591,317	266,301	325,016	361,865	156,078	205,787	229,452	110,223	119,229
35 to 39	408,932	368,319	151,776	216,543	338,499	138,827	199,672	221,791	87,570	134,221	116,708	51,257	65,451
40 to 49	483,716	403,959	151,610	252,349	350,409	129,668	220,741	229,041	83,394	145,647	121,368	46,274	75,094
50 to 64	226,402	177,157	64,530	112,627	148,671	53,859	94,812	91,788	33,175	58,613	56,883	20,684	36,199
65 and over	9,105	10,556	4,747	5,809	8,951	3,941	5,010	5,161	2,318	2,843	3,790	1,623	2,167
Age unknown	25,699	19,023	7,311	11,712	14,081	5,760	8,321	12,403	4,993	7,410	1,678	767	911
Part-time	7,780,067	7,700,692	3,165,372	4,535,320	7,702,010	3,147,359	4,554,651	6,401,173	2,667,544	3,733,629	1,300,837	479,815	821,022
Under 18	693,481	847,084	352,317	494,767	1,012,565	420,279	592,286	1,012,474	420,243	592,231	91	36	55
18 and 19	716,745	729,088	342,238	386,850	750,115	349,605	400,510	749,974	349,541	400,433	141	64	77
20 and 21	840,983	837,475	378,234	459,241	829,138	369,634	459,504	825,604	368,544	457,060	3,534	1,090	2,444
22 to 24	1,191,515	1,168,818	507,348	661,470	1,136,102	487,970	648,132	1,003,726	439,833	563,893	132,376	48,137	84,239
25 to 29	1,358,290	1,336,761	545,121	791,640	1,322,173	531,100	791,073	971,297	398,936	572,361	350,876	132,164	218,712
30 to 34	917,396	862,152	348,014	514,138	830,340	331,363	498,977	584,460	233,520	350,940	245,880	97,843	148,037
35 to 39	624,877	605,083	232,619	372,464	594,844	227,826	367,018	413,098	158,512	254,586	181,746	69,314	112,432
40 to 49	862,952	786,194	277,071	509,123	739,694	259,616	480,078	498,185	176,924	321,261	241,509	82,692	158,817
50 to 64	490,953	450,371	150,102	300,269	411,502	138,192	273,310	280,303	95,176	185,127	131,199	43,016	88,183
65 and over	57,097	56,127	23,487	32,640	58,143	24,596	33,547	48,380	20,410	27,970	9,763	4,186	5,577
Age unknown	25,778	21,539	8,821	12,718	17,394	7,178	10,216	13,672	5,905	7,767	3,722	1,273	2,449
	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
Under 18	4.3	5.3	5.0	5.5	6.2	5.9	6.5	7.4	6.9	7.7	#	#	#
18 and 19	21.0	21.8	22.4	21.2	22.5	23.3	21.9	26.5	27.2	26.1	#	#	#
20 and 21	20.1	20.4	21.2	19.8	20.7	21.6	20.1	24.2	25.0	23.7	1.2	1.1	1.3
22 to 24	16.9	16.7	17.7	15.9	16.2	17.2	15.5	15.2	16.5	14.2	22.1	21.6	22.5
25 to 29	14.1	13.9	14.1	13.8	13.6	13.6	13.6	10.3	10.3	10.4	32.1	34.1	30.7
30 to 34	8.1	7.6	7.4	7.7	7.2	7.0	7.4	5.7	5.3	5.9	15.8	17.1	15.0
35 to 39	5.1	4.9	4.4	5.2	4.7	4.3	5.1	3.8	3.4	4.1	9.9	9.9	10.0
40 to 49	6.6	6.0	4.9	6.8	5.5	4.5	6.3	4.3	3.5	5.0	12.1	10.6	13.1
50 to 64	3.5	3.1	2.5	3.7	2.8	2.2	3.3	2.2	1.7	2.6	6.3	5.2	7.0
65 and over	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.4
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
Under 18	1.5	1.7	1.5	1.8	1.8	1.6	2.0	2.1	1.8	2.4	#	#	#
18 and 19	28.2	29.4	29.0	29.8	30.6	30.4	30.9	35.7	35.1	36.1	#	#	0.1
20 and 21	25.8	26.4	26.5	26.4	27.1	27.2	27.0	31.2	31.3	31.2	1.9	1.6	2.2
22 to 24	17.8	17.6	18.6	16.7	17.1	18.1	16.3	14.8	16.4	13.5	31.1	29.0	32.8
25 to 29	11.9	11.8	12.3	11.3	11.4	11.8	11.1	7.4	7.6	7.2	35.9	38.3	34.0
30 to 34	5.8	5.3	5.3	5.3	4.9	4.9	4.9	3.5	3.3	3.6	13.5	14.9	12.4
35 to 39	3.3	3.0	2.7	3.2	2.8	2.6	3.0	2.1	1.9	2.4	6.9	6.9	6.8
40 to 49	3.8	3.3	2.7	3.8	2.9	2.4	3.3	2.2	1.8	2.6	7.1	6.3	7.8
50 to 64	1.8	1.4	1.2	1.7	1.2	1.0	1.4	0.9	0.7	1.0	3.3	2.8	3.8
65 and over	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	#	#	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2
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
Under 18	8.9	11.0	11.2	10.9	13.2	13.4	13.0	15.9	15.8	15.9	#	#	#
18 and 19	9.2	9.5	10.8	8.6	9.8	11.1	8.8	11.7	13.1	10.7	#	#	#
20 and 21	10.8	10.9	12.0	10.2	10.8	11.8	10.1	12.9	13.8	12.3	0.3	0.2	0.3
22 to 24	15.4	15.2	16.1	14.6	14.8	15.5	14.3	15.7	16.5	15.1	10.2	10.1	10.3
25 to 29	17.5	17.4	17.3	17.5	17.2	16.9	17.4	15.2	15.0	15.4	27.1	27.6	26.7
30 to 34	11.8	11.2	11.0	11.4	10.8	10.6	11.0	9.2	8.8	9.4	19.0	20.4	18.1
35 to 39	8.1	7.9	7.4	8.2	7.7	7.3	8.1	6.5	6.0	6.8	14.0	14.5	13.7
40 to 49	11.1	10.2	8.8	11.3	9.6	8.3	10.6	7.8	6.6	8.6	18.6	17.3	19.4
50 to 64	6.3	5.9	4.8	6.6	5.4	4.4	6.0	4.4	3.6	5.0	10.1	9.0	10.8
65 and over	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.7

#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. Some data have been revised from previously published figures.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2014, 2016, and 2018, Fall Enrollment component. (This table was prepared September 2019.)