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	16,773,036	13,112,594	7,395,134	5,717,460	2,819,080	2,770,685	48,395	841,362	654,446	186,916	3,005,115	1,459,145	1,289,409	256,561
Under 18	1,233,021	1,132,042	379,252	752,790	96,410	95,753	657	4,569	3,457	1,112	134	40	92	2
18 and 19	4,445,215	3,526,795	2,172,927	1,353,868	859,865	852,685	7,180	58,555	36,666	21,889	890	449	413	28
20 and 21	4,059,944	3,132,168	2,171,402	960,766	847,338	841,906	5,432	80,438	54,061	26,377	36,392	19,785	16,146	461
22 to 24	2,541,944	2,063,145	1,293,776	769,369	362,913	355,868	7,045	115,886	82,912	32,974	662,583	358,913	290,793	12,877
25 to 29	1,732,765	1,339,447	630,619	708,828	209,967	200,300	9,667	183,351	143,343	40,008	961,418	492,261	422,550	46,607
30 to 34	946,325	674,873	283,074	391,799	134,710	128,665	6,045	136,742	113,202	23,540	475,332	234,815	195,546	44,971
35 to 39	634,889	432,454	172,682	259,772	103,114	98,923	4,191	99,321	83,715	15,606	298,454	134,762	121,331	42,361
40 to 49	727,226	487,302	185,390	301,912	128,754	123,608	5,146	111,170	94,363	16,807	362,877	146,499	150,493	65,885
50 to 64	372,091	262,585	88,723	173,862	62,440	59,712	2,728	47,066	39,662	7,404	188,082	66,177	81,872	40,033
65 and over	53,541	47,310	13,167	34,143	4,421	4,206	215	1,810	1,464	346	13,553	5,014	5,734	2,805
Age unknown	26,075	14,473	4,122	10,351	9,148	9,059	89	2,454	1,601	853	5,400	430	4,439	531
Full-time	10,371,863	7,515,398	5,498,493	2,016,905	2,300,518	2,259,427	41,091	555,947	386,619	169,328	1,704,278	811,076	781,553	111,649
Under 18	220,547	185,310	103,906	81,404	33,098	32,834	264	2,139	1,052	1,087	43	18	24	1
18 and 19	3,695,241	2,812,605	1,983,407	829,198	830,043	823,231	6,812	52,593	31,590	21,003	749	404	327	18
20 and 21	3,234,340	2,354,762	1,921,413	433,349	813,857	809,134	4,723	65,721	41,211	24,510	32,858	18,007	14,515	336
22 to 24	1,538,218	1,161,147	924,814	236,333	293,846	288,032	5,814	83,225	53,388	29,837	530,207	285,663	236,769	7,775
25 to 29	761,468	515,303	320,680	194,623	124,840	116,701	8,139	121,325	85,420	35,905	610,542	302,408	285,291	22,843
30 to 34	361,865	208,220	112,487	95,733	69,373	64,304	5,069	84,272	63,342	20,930	229,452	106,932	103,218	19,302
35 to 39	221,791	114,346	57,303	57,043	49,018	45,528	3,490	58,427	44,532	13,895	116,708	46,004	52,918	17,786
40 to 49	229,041	109,944	51,973	57,971	57,059	52,763	4,296	62,038	47,218	14,820	121,368	37,424	57,399	26,545
50 to 64	91,788	44,149	18,726	25,423	23,781	21,524	2,257	23,858	17,620	6,238	56,883	13,387	27,886	15,610
65 and over	5,161	3,273	1,022	2,251	953	775	178	935	632	303	3,790	745	1,903	1,142
Age unknown	12,403	6,339	2,762	3,577	4,650	4,601	49	1,414	614	800	1,678	84	1,303	291
Part-time	6,401,173	5,597,196	1,896,641	3,700,555	518,562	511,258	7,304	285,415	267,827	17,588	1,300,837	648,069	507,856	144,912
Under 18	1,012,474	946,732	275,346	671,386	63,312	62,919	393	2,430	2,405	25	91	22	68	1
18 and 19	749,974	714,190	189,520	524,670	29,822	29,454	368	5,962	5,076	886	141	45	86	10
20 and 21	825,604	777,406	249,989	527,417	33,481	32,772	709	14,717	12,850	1,867	3,534	1,778	1,631	125
22 to 24	1,003,726	901,998	368,962	533,036	69,067	67,836	1,231	32,661	29,524	3,137	132,376	73,250	54,024	5,102
25 to 29	971,297	824,144	309,939	514,205	85,127	83,599	1,528	62,026	57,923	4,103	350,876	189,853	137,259	23,764
30 to 34	584,460	466,653	170,587	296,066	65,337	64,361	976	52,470	49,860	2,610	245,880	127,883	92,328	25,669
35 to 39	413,098	318,108	115,379	202,729	54,096	53,395	701	40,894	39,183	1,711	181,746	88,758	68,413	24,575
40 to 49	498,185	377,358	133,417	243,941	71,695	70,845	850	49,132	47,145	1,987	241,509	109,075	93,094	39,340
50 to 64	280,303	218,436	69,997	148,439	38,659	38,188	471	23,208	22,042	1,166	131,199	52,790	53,986	24,423
65 and over	48,380	44,037	12,145	31,892	3,468	3,431	37	875	832	43	9,763	4,269	3,831	1,663
Age unknown	13,672	8,134	1,360	6,774	4,498	4,458	40	1,040	987	53	3,722	346	3,136	240
	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	0.5	0.5	0.6	#	#	#	#
18 and 19	26.5	26.9	29.4	23.7	30.6	30.9	14.9	7.0	5.6	11.8	#	#	#	#
20 and 21	24.2	23.9	29.4	16.8	30.2	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	22.1	24.6	22.6	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	32.9	18.2
30 to 34	5.7	5.2	3.8	6.9	4.8	4.7	12.5	16.3	17.3	12.7	15.8	16.1	15.2	17.6
35 to 39	3.8	3.3	2.3	4.6	3.7	3.6	8.7	11.8	12.8	8.4	9.9	9.2	9.4	16.5
40 to 49	4.3	3.7	2.5	5.3	4.6	4.5	10.7	13.3	14.5	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	1.4	1.5	0.6	0.4	0.3	0.6	#	#	#	#
18 and 19	35.7	37.5	36.1	41.2	36.2	36.5	16.6	9.5	8.2	12.5	#	#	#	#
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	1.9	0.3
22 to 24	14.8	15.5	16.8	11.7	12.8	12.8	14.2	15.0	13.8	17.7	31.1	35.2	30.3	7.0
25 to 29	7.4	6.9	5.8	9.7	5.4	5.2	19.8	21.9	22.1	21.3	35.9	37.3	36.6	20.5
30 to 34	3.5	2.8	2.0	4.8	3.0	2.9	12.4	15.2	16.4	12.4	13.5	13.2	13.2	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	15.9	16.9	14.5	18.2	12.3	12.4	5.4	0.9	0.9	0.1	#	#	#	#
18 and 19	11.7	12.8	10.0	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	16.1	19.5	14.4	13.4	13.4	16.9	11.5	11.1	17.9	10.2	11.3	10.7	3.5
25 to 29	15.2	14.7	16.4	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	9.2	8.3	9.0	8.0	12.7	12.7	13.4	18.5	18.7	14.9	19.0	19.7	18.3	17.7
35 to 39	6.5	5.7	6.1	5.5	10.5	10.5	9.7	14.4	14.7	9.8	14.0	13.7	13.6	17.0
40 to 49	7.8	6.8	7.0	6.6	13.9	14.0	11.7	17.3	17.7	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	8.3	6.6	10.1	8.2	10.7	16.9
65 and over	0.8	0.8	0.6	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. 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 2018, Fall Enrollment component. (This table was prepared September 2019.)