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: 2019

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	16,565,066	13,001,543	7,603,444	5,398,099	2,804,878	2,760,234	44,644	758,645	602,344	156,301	3,072,433	1,499,514	1,340,385	232,534
Under 18	1,450,384	1,339,061	490,654	848,407	107,372	106,552	820	3,951	3,073	878	111	42	65	4
18 and 19	4,509,302	3,582,829	2,268,742	1,314,087	870,478	864,247	6,231	55,995	36,344	19,651	1,266	730	495	41
20 and 21	4,022,673	3,088,838	2,220,858	867,980	859,530	854,539	4,991	74,305	51,610	22,695	41,565	23,538	17,362	665
22 to 24	2,361,365	1,915,624	1,249,394	666,230	343,378	337,304	6,074	102,363	75,767	26,596	689,210	370,677	305,452	13,081
25 to 29	1,616,666	1,248,753	617,858	630,895	203,772	194,443	9,329	164,141	130,426	33,715	961,006	490,233	427,340	43,433
30 to 34	917,999	657,027	290,611	366,416	135,159	128,990	6,169	125,813	105,779	20,034	486,470	240,848	204,763	40,859
35 to 39	607,080	415,430	176,552	238,878	101,149	97,117	4,032	90,501	77,690	12,811	308,300	141,797	127,900	38,603
40 to 49	676,016	458,800	186,006	272,794	119,146	114,617	4,529	98,070	84,403	13,667	373,858	156,107	158,828	58,923
50 to 64	334,213	238,987	86,461	152,526	54,767	52,662	2,105	40,459	35,055	5,404	189,911	68,584	87,187	34,140
65 and over	53,426	47,230	14,418	32,812	4,352	4,197	155	1,844	1,555	289	15,246	5,653	7,065	2,528
Age unknown	15,942	8,964	1,890	7,074	5,775	5,566	209	1,203	642	561	5,490	1,305	3,928	257
Full-time	10,219,934	7,398,491	5,529,247	1,869,244	2,313,494	2,275,589	37,905	507,949	359,973	147,976	1,746,560	821,804	823,594	101,162
Under 18	254,881	219,562	120,606	98,956	33,266	32,832	434	2,053	1,199	854	49	19	27	3
18 and 19	3,752,904	2,860,728	2,050,008	810,720	841,320	835,464	5,856	50,856	31,597	19,259	1,067	622	419	26
20 and 21	3,215,272	2,326,896	1,947,972	378,924	826,899	822,476	4,423	61,477	39,703	21,774	36,637	20,739	15,440	458
22 to 24	1,424,669	1,070,994	872,540	198,454	278,832	273,811	5,021	74,843	49,647	25,196	550,778	292,643	250,314	7,821
25 to 29	703,292	469,220	302,291	166,929	124,381	116,444	7,937	109,691	77,938	31,753	611,900	298,265	292,223	21,412
30 to 34	349,420	196,888	110,223	86,665	74,170	68,986	5,184	78,362	59,603	18,759	234,995	108,271	109,319	17,405
35 to 39	214,215	108,498	56,285	52,213	52,249	48,886	3,363	53,468	41,564	11,904	120,398	47,004	57,353	16,041
40 to 49	213,164	101,286	50,198	51,088	56,840	53,108	3,732	55,038	42,270	12,768	126,269	39,497	63,233	23,539
50 to 64	81,515	39,118	17,588	21,530	22,043	20,394	1,649	20,354	15,421	4,933	58,556	13,610	31,635	13,311
65 and over	5,148	3,309	1,058	2,251	930	811	119	909	646	263	4,079	840	2,279	960
Age unknown	5,454	1,992	478	1,514	2,564	2,377	187	898	385	513	1,832	294	1,352	186
Part-time	6,345,132	5,603,052	2,074,197	3,528,855	491,384	484,645	6,739	250,696	242,371	8,325	1,325,873	677,710	516,791	131,372
Under 18	1,195,503	1,119,499	370,048	749,451	74,106	73,720	386	1,898	1,874	24	62	23	38	1
18 and 19	756,398	722,101	218,734	503,367	29,158	28,783	375	5,139	4,747	392	199	108	76	15
20 and 21	807,401	761,942	272,886	489,056	32,631	32,063	568	12,828	11,907	921	4,928	2,799	1,922	207
22 to 24	936,696	844,630	376,854	467,776	64,546	63,493	1,053	27,520	26,120	1,400	138,432	78,034	55,138	5,260
25 to 29	913,374	779,533	315,567	463,966	79,391	77,999	1,392	54,450	52,488	1,962	349,106	191,968	135,117	22,021
30 to 34	568,579	460,139	180,388	279,751	60,989	60,004	985	47,451	46,176	1,275	251,475	132,577	95,444	23,454
35 to 39	392,865	306,932	120,267	186,665	48,900	48,231	669	37,033	36,126	907	187,902	94,793	70,547	22,562
40 to 49	462,852	357,514	135,808	221,706	62,306	61,509	797	43,032	42,133	899	247,589	116,610	95,595	35,384
50 to 64	252,698	199,869	68,873	130,996	32,724	32,268	456	20,105	19,634	471	131,355	54,974	55,552	20,829
65 and over	48,278	43,921	13,360	30,561	3,422	3,386	36	935	909	26	11,167	4,813	4,786	1,568
Age unknown	10,488	6,972	1,412	5,560	3,211	3,189	22	305	257	48	3,658	1,011	2,576	71
	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	8.8	10.3	6.5	15.7	3.8	3.9	1.8	0.5	0.5	0.6	#	#	#	#
18 and 19	27.2	27.6	29.8	24.4	31.1	31.4	14.0	7.4	6.0	12.6	#	#	#	#
20 and 21	24.3	23.8	29.2	16.1	30.7	31.0	11.2	9.8	8.6	14.6	1.4	1.6	1.3	0.3
22 to 24	14.3	14.7	16.4	12.4	12.3	12.2	13.7	13.5	12.6	17.1	22.5	24.7	22.9	5.6
25 to 29	9.8	9.6	8.1	11.7	7.3	7.1	21.0	21.7	21.7	21.6	31.3	32.7	32.0	18.7
30 to 34	5.5	5.1	3.8	6.8	4.8	4.7	13.9	16.6	17.6	12.9	15.9	16.1	15.3	17.6
35 to 39	3.7	3.2	2.3	4.4	3.6	3.5	9.1	11.9	12.9	8.2	10.1	9.5	9.6	16.6
40 to 49	4.1	3.5	2.4	5.1	4.3	4.2	10.2	12.9	14.0	8.8	12.2	10.4	11.9	25.4
50 to 64	2.0	1.8	1.1	2.8	2.0	1.9	4.7	5.3	5.8	3.5	6.2	4.6	6.5	14.7
65 and over	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.6	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.5	0.4	0.5	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	2.5	3.0	2.2	5.3	1.4	1.4	1.2	0.4	0.3	0.6	#	#	#	#
18 and 19	36.7	38.7	37.1	43.4	36.4	36.8	15.5	10.0	8.8	13.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	#
20 and 21	31.5	31.5	35.2	20.3	35.8	36.2	11.7	12.1	11.0	14.8	2.1	2.5	1.9	0.5
22 to 24	13.9	14.5	15.8	10.6	12.1	12.0	13.3	14.8	13.8	17.1	31.6	35.6	30.4	7.7
25 to 29	6.9	6.3	5.5	8.9	5.4	5.1	21.0	21.6	21.7	21.5	35.1	36.3	35.5	21.2
30 to 34	3.4	2.7	2.0	4.6	3.2	3.0	13.7	15.5	16.6	12.7	13.5	13.2	13.3	17.2
35 to 39	2.1	1.5	1.0	2.8	2.3	2.2	8.9	10.5	11.6	8.1	6.9	5.7	7.0	15.9
40 to 49	2.1	1.4	0.9	2.7	2.5	2.3	9.9	10.9	11.8	8.7	7.2	4.8	7.7	23.3
50 to 64	0.8	0.5	0.3	1.2	1.0	0.9	4.4	4.0	4.3	3.3	3.4	1.7	3.8	13.2
65 and over	0.1	#	#	0.1	#	#	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.3	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	18.9	20.0	17.9	21.3	15.2	15.3	5.7	0.8	0.8	0.3	#	#	#	#
18 and 19	11.9	12.9	10.6	14.3	6.0	6.0	5.6	2.1	2.0	4.7	#	#	#	#
20 and 21	12.7	13.6	13.2	13.9	6.7	6.7	8.5	5.1	4.9	11.1	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.2
22 to 24	14.8	15.1	18.2	13.3	13.2	13.2	15.7	11.0	10.8	16.9	10.5	11.5	10.7	4.0
25 to 29	14.4	13.9	15.2	13.2	16.3	16.2	20.7	21.7	21.7	23.7	26.4	28.4	26.3	16.8
30 to 34	9.0	8.2	8.7	7.9	12.5	12.5	14.7	19.0	19.1	15.4	19.0	19.6	18.6	17.9
35 to 39	6.2	5.5	5.8	5.3	10.0	10.0	10.0	14.8	14.9	11.0	14.2	14.0	13.7	17.2
40 to 49	7.3	6.4	6.6	6.3	12.8	12.8	11.9	17.2	17.4	10.9	18.7	17.2	18.6	26.9
50 to 64	4.0	3.6	3.3	3.7	6.7	6.7	6.8	8.0	8.1	5.7	9.9	8.1	10.8	15.9
65 and over	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.9	0.7	0.7	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.8	0.7	0.9	1.2

#Rounds to zero.

1 Percentage distributions exclude students whose age is unknown.

NOTE: Data in this table represent the 50 states and the District of Columbia. 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 2020, Fall Enrollment component. (This table was prepared January 2021.)