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Table 334.40. Total expenditures of private nonprofit degree-granting postsecondary institutions, by purpose and classification of institution: 2017-18
Classification of institution Total Instruc-
tion
Research Public
service
Academic
support
Student
services
Institu-
tional
support
Auxiliary
enter-
prises1
Net grant
aid to
students2
Hospitals Indepen-
dent
operations
Other
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
  In thousands of current dollars
Total $206,778,042 $63,489,832 $21,872,856 $3,090,888 $17,843,700 $17,560,444 $26,471,439 $17,824,434 $986,591 $26,740,972 $6,294,985 $4,601,901
4-year 205,992,273 63,268,589 21,872,111 3,089,523 17,745,371 17,345,090 26,293,205 17,794,013 985,036 26,740,972 6,294,985 4,563,379
Research university, very high3 101,260,896 29,581,680 17,638,396 1,094,333 7,563,986 4,053,799 8,959,755 6,545,325 685,271 17,680,570 4,239,227 3,218,555
Research university, high4 15,062,942 5,063,970 1,408,749 259,422 2,420,869 1,264,753 2,164,286 1,792,043 34,484 499,279 82,486 72,600
Doctoral/research5 9,676,253 3,859,881 178,397 118,602 1,032,995 1,536,102 1,686,602 1,197,216 7,002 0 33,388 26,067
Master's6 31,610,369 11,872,385 254,173 234,696 3,206,398 5,493,979 6,044,947 3,894,197 114,820 28,873 124,800 341,100
Baccalaureate7 22,030,214 7,750,332 215,145 184,662 2,003,276 3,761,583 4,198,525 3,533,439 75,007 0 46,614 261,630
Special-focus institutions8 26,351,599 5,140,341 2,177,251 1,197,807 1,517,846 1,234,874 3,239,090 831,792 68,452 8,532,249 1,768,470 643,426
Arts, music, or design 2,471,665 999,416 1,091 27,551 312,765 257,447 510,317 272,625 4,626 0 48,636 37,190
Business and management 605,790 155,921 2,276 965 72,852 107,557 181,779 75,047 635 0 0 8,759
Engineering and other
    technology-related
259,879 111,205 3,775 0 22,563 45,229 52,512 19,028 4,081 0 0 1,487
Faith related 1,928,756 601,819 6,900 64,080 203,568 187,516 512,868 185,618 43,131 0 14,019 109,239
Law 492,177 201,053 3,342 9,373 77,201 64,758 120,779 13,437 1,394 0 0 840
Medical schools and centers and
    other heath professions
    schools
19,893,768 2,842,277 2,151,002 987,097 775,697 484,958 1,709,264 222,768 13,087 8,532,249 1,705,796 469,575
Tribal colleges9 88,983 24,300 2,383 6,157 5,420 13,099 21,532 1,534 742 0 0 13,817
Other special focus 610,581 204,350 6,482 102,586 47,780 74,313 130,041 41,734 757 0 19 2,520

2-year
785,770 221,244 745 1,366 98,329 215,354 178,234 30,421 1,555 0 0 38,522
Associate's colleges 770,539 217,993 19 1,060 95,733 213,901 174,135 30,072 322 0 0 37,305
Tribal colleges9 15,231 3,251 726 306 2,596 1,454 4,099 349 1,233 0 0 1,217
  Percentage distribution
Total 100.00 30.70 10.58 1.49 8.63 8.49 12.80 8.62 0.48 12.93 3.04 2.23
4-year 100.00 30.71 10.62 1.50 8.61 8.42 12.76 8.64 0.48 12.98 3.06 2.22
Research university, very high3 100.00 29.21 17.42 1.08 7.47 4.00 8.85 6.46 0.68 17.46 4.19 3.18
Research university, high4 100.00 33.62 9.35 1.72 16.07 8.40 14.37 11.90 0.23 3.31 0.55 0.48
Doctoral/research5 100.00 39.89 1.84 1.23 10.68 15.87 17.43 12.37 0.07 0.00 0.35 0.27
Master's6 100.00 37.56 0.80 0.74 10.14 17.38 19.12 12.32 0.36 0.09 0.39 1.08
Baccalaureate7 100.00 35.18 0.98 0.84 9.09 17.07 19.06 16.04 0.34 0.00 0.21 1.19
Special-focus institutions8 100.00 19.51 8.26 4.55 5.76 4.69 12.29 3.16 0.26 32.38 6.71 2.44
Arts, music, or design 100.00 40.43 0.04 1.11 12.65 10.42 20.65 11.03 0.19 0.00 1.97 1.50
Business and management 100.00 25.74 0.38 0.16 12.03 17.75 30.01 12.39 0.10 0.00 0.00 1.45
Engineering and other
    technology-related
100.00 42.79 1.45 0.00 8.68 17.40 20.21 7.32 1.57 0.00 0.00 0.57
Faith related 100.00 31.20 0.36 3.32 10.55 9.72 26.59 9.62 2.24 0.00 0.73 5.66
Law 100.00 40.85 0.68 1.90 15.69 13.16 24.54 2.73 0.28 0.00 0.00 0.17
Medical schools and centers and
    other heath professions
    schools
100.00 14.29 10.81 4.96 3.90 2.44 8.59 1.12 0.07 42.89 8.57 2.36
Tribal colleges9 100.00 27.31 2.68 6.92 6.09 14.72 24.20 1.72 0.83 0.00 0.00 15.53
Other special focus 100.00 33.47 1.06 16.80 7.83 12.17 21.30 6.84 0.12 0.00 # 0.41

2-year
100.00 28.16 0.09 0.17 12.51 27.41 22.68 3.87 0.20 0.00 0.00 4.90
Associate's colleges 100.00 28.29 # 0.14 12.42 27.76 22.60 3.90 0.04 0.00 0.00 4.84
Tribal colleges9 100.00 21.34 4.77 2.01 17.05 9.54 26.91 2.29 8.10 0.00 0.00 7.99
  Expenditure per full-time-equivalent student in current dollars
Total $59,686 $18,326 $6,314 $892 $5,151 $5,069 $7,641 $5,145 $285 $7,719 $1,817 $1,328
4-year 60,174 18,482 6,389 903 5,184 5,067 7,681 5,198 288 7,812 1,839 1,333
Research university, very high3 176,106 51,446 30,676 1,903 13,155 7,050 15,582 11,383 1,192 30,749 7,373 5,597
Research university, high4 51,563 17,335 4,822 888 8,287 4,329 7,409 6,134 118 1,709 282 249
Doctoral/research5 27,431 10,942 506 336 2,928 4,355 4,781 3,394 20 0 95 74
Master's6 24,602 9,240 198 183 2,495 4,276 4,705 3,031 89 22 97 265
Baccalaureate7 36,932 12,993 361 310 3,358 6,306 7,039 5,924 126 0 78 439
Special-focus institutions8 81,837 15,964 6,762 3,720 4,714 3,835 10,059 2,583 213 26,498 5,492 1,998
Arts, music, or design 41,964 16,968 19 468 5,310 4,371 8,664 4,629 79 0 826 631
Business and management 25,396 6,536 95 40 3,054 4,509 7,620 3,146 27 0 0 367
Engineering and other
    technology-related
21,234 9,086 308 0 1,844 3,695 4,291 1,555 333 0 0 121
Faith related 28,521 8,899 102 948 3,010 2,773 7,584 2,745 638 0 207 1,615
Law 48,130 19,661 327 917 7,550 6,333 11,811 1,314 136 0 0 82
Medical schools and centers and
    other heath professions
    schools
148,919 21,276 16,102 7,389 5,807 3,630 12,795 1,668 98 63,870 12,769 3,515
Tribal colleges9 43,217 11,802 1,157 2,990 2,632 6,362 10,458 745 360 0 0 6,710
Other special focus 45,191 15,125 480 7,593 3,536 5,500 9,625 3,089 56 0 1 187

2-year
19,079 5,372 18 33 2,387 5,229 4,328 739 38 0 0 935
Associate's colleges 18,890 5,344 # 26 2,347 5,244 4,269 737 8 0 0 915
Tribal colleges9 38,461 8,209 1,834 772 6,557 3,671 10,351 880 3,114 0 0 3,073
#Rounds to zero.
1 Essentially self-supporting operations of institutions that furnish a service to students, faculty, or staff, such as residence halls and food services.
2 Excludes allowances that were recorded as a reduction to revenues from tuition and fees and from auxiliary enterprises, such as room, board, and books; also excludes agency transactions, such as student awards made from contributed funds or grant funds. These exclusions account for the majority of total student grants.
3 Research universities with a very high level of research activity.
4 Research universities with a high level of research activity.
5 Institutions that award at least 20 research/scholarship doctor's degrees per year, but did not have high levels of research activity.
6 Institutions that award at least 50 master's and fewer than 20 doctor's degrees per year.
7 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.
8 Four-year institutions that award degrees primarily in single fields of study, such as medicine, business, fine arts, theology, and engineering.
9 Tribally controlled colleges, which are located on reservations and are members of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium.
NOTE: Relative levels of research activity for research universities were determined by an analysis of research and development expenditures, science and engineering research staffing, and doctor's degrees conferred, by field. Further information on the Carnegie 2015 classification system used in this table may be obtained from https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/downloads/CCIHE2015-FactsFigures.pdf. Degree-granting institutions grant associate's or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. 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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