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Table 333.60. Total revenue of private for-profit degree-granting postsecondary institutions, by source of funds and classification of institution: 2017-18
Classification of institution Total Student
tuition and
fees
(net of
allowances)1
Federal
appropri-
ations,
grants, and
contracts1
State appro-
priations,
grants, and
contracts
Local appro-
priations,
grants, and
contracts
Private
gifts,
grants,
and con-
tracts
Invest-
ment
return
(gain or
loss)
Educa-
tional
activi-
ties
Auxiliary
enter-
prises
(net of
allowances)
Other
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
  In thousands of current dollars
Total $13,233,730 $12,374,965 $228,157 $19,823 $1,535 $12,175 $58,806 $159,937 $147,597 $230,737
4-year 10,779,287 10,190,630 111,302 11,673 445 11,521 51,759 138,034 121,056 142,867
Doctoral/research2 3,227,536 2,996,309 448 0 0 0 33,693 118,362 17,550 61,175
Master's3 3,032,349 2,937,278 12,180 872 0 0 4,811 4,498 37,829 34,882
Baccalaureate4 1,529,994 1,399,645 68,846 2,752 279 11,105 3,936 3,923 29,891 9,618
Special-focus institutions5 2,989,408 2,857,398 29,828 8,049 166 416 9,321 11,252 35,786 37,193
Arts, music, or design 784,619 729,399 17,776 5,741 0 0 2,308 347 20,259 8,789
Business and management 498,755 485,580 142 494 0 0 4,752 1,149 3,713 2,925
Engineering and other
    technology-related
77,167 66,990 2,962 237 58 0 420 323 6,042 135
Law 41,276 40,877 0 0 0 0 6 31 29 333
Medical schools and centers and
    other heath professions
    schools
1,567,918 1,515,471 8,947 1,574 108 416 1,834 8,903 5,951 24,714
Other special focus 19,674 19,082 0 3 0 0 1 498 -207 297

2-year
2,454,442 2,184,335 116,855 8,150 1,090 654 7,047 21,903 26,540 87,869
High transfer and mixed
    transfer/career and technical
    institutions6
88,870 86,996 722 0 0 61 100 0 58 933
High career and technical
    institutions7
675,313 608,057 42,484 3,705 169 12 1,030 6,916 6,530 6,410
Special-focus: health professions 1,139,105 1,013,988 49,483 3,302 921 340 2,733 5,423 16,286 46,629
Special-focus: other 551,154 475,294 24,167 1,143 0 241 3,183 9,563 3,666 33,898
  Percentage distribution
Total 100.00 93.51 1.72 0.15 0.01 0.09 0.44 1.21 1.12 1.74
4-year 100.00 94.54 1.03 0.11 # 0.11 0.48 1.28 1.12 1.33
Doctoral/research2 100.00 92.84 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.04 3.67 0.54 1.90
Master's3 100.00 96.86 0.40 0.03 0.00 0.00 0.16 0.15 1.25 1.15
Baccalaureate4 100.00 91.48 4.50 0.18 0.02 0.73 0.26 0.26 1.95 0.63
Special-focus institutions5 100.00 95.58 1.00 0.27 0.01 0.01 0.31 0.38 1.20 1.24
Arts, music, or design 100.00 92.96 2.27 0.73 0.00 0.00 0.29 0.04 2.58 1.12
Business and management 100.00 97.36 0.03 0.10 0.00 0.00 0.95 0.23 0.74 0.59
Engineering and other
    technology-related
100.00 86.81 3.84 0.31 0.08 0.00 0.54 0.42 7.83 0.18
Law 100.00 99.03 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.08 0.07 0.81
Medical schools and centers and
    other heath professions
    schools
100.00 96.66 0.57 0.10 0.01 0.03 0.12 0.57 0.38 1.58
Other special focus 100.00 96.99 0.00 0.02 0.00 0.00 0.00 2.53 -1.05 1.51

2-year
100.00 89.00 4.76 0.33 0.04 0.03 0.29 0.89 1.08 3.58
High transfer and mixed
    transfer/career and technical
    institutions6
100.00 97.89 0.81 0.00 0.00 0.07 0.11 0.00 0.07 1.05
High career and technical
    institutions7
100.00 90.04 6.29 0.55 0.03 # 0.15 1.02 0.97 0.95
Special-focus: health professions 100.00 89.02 4.34 0.29 0.08 0.03 0.24 0.48 1.43 4.09
Special-focus: other 100.00 86.24 4.38 0.21 0.00 0.04 0.58 1.74 0.67 6.15
  Revenue per full-time-equivalent student in current dollars
Total $17,623 $16,480 $304 $26 $2 $16 $78 $213 $197 $307
4-year 17,798 16,826 184 19 1 19 85 228 200 236
Doctoral/research2 15,226 14,135 2 0 0 0 159 558 83 289
Master's3 15,558 15,071 62 4 0 0 25 23 194 179
Baccalaureate4 18,956 17,341 853 34 3 138 49 49 370 119
Special-focus institutions5 25,320 24,202 253 68 1 4 79 95 303 315
Arts, music, or design 30,028 27,914 680 220 0 0 88 13 775 336
Business and management 20,429 19,889 6 20 0 0 195 47 152 120
Engineering and other
    technology-related
25,030 21,729 961 77 19 0 136 105 1,960 44
Law 33,777 33,451 0 0 0 0 5 25 24 273
Medical schools and centers and
    other heath professions
    schools
25,370 24,522 145 25 2 7 30 144 96 400
Other special focus 13,923 13,504 0 2 0 0 1 353 -147 210

2-year
16,896 15,037 804 56 8 4 49 151 183 605
High transfer and mixed
    transfer/career and technical
    institutions6
16,451 16,104 134 0 0 11 18 0 11 173
High career and technical
    institutions7
16,241 14,623 1,022 89 4 # 25 166 157 154
Special-focus: health professions 16,518 14,703 718 48 13 5 40 79 236 676
Special-focus: other 18,799 16,212 824 39 0 8 109 326 125 1,156
#Rounds to zero.
1 Private institutions typically report Pell grants as revenues from tuition and fees rather than as revenues from federal grants.
2 Institutions that award at least 20 research/scholarship doctor's degrees per year, but did not have high levels of research activity.
3 Institutions that award at least 50 master's and fewer than 20 doctor's degrees per year.
4 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.
5 Four-year institutions that award degrees primarily in single fields of study, such as medicine, business, fine arts, theology, and engineering.
6 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.
7 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 https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/downloads/CCIHE2015-FactsFigures.pdf. 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 2018, Fall Enrollment component; and Spring 2019, Finance component. (This table was prepared December 2019.)

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