Table 303.90.

Fall enrollment and number of degree-granting postsecondary institutions, by control and religious affiliation of institution: Selected years, 1980 through 2019

Control and religious affiliation of institution	Total enrollment						Enrollment, fall 2019					Number of institutions1
	Fall 1980	Fall 1990	Fall 2000	Fall 2010	Fall 2017	Fall 2018	Total	Full-time		Part-time
								Males	Females	Males	Females	Fall 1980	Fall 1990	Fall 2000	Fall 2010	Fall 2019
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
All institutions	12,096,895	13,818,637	15,312,289	21,019,438	19,778,151	19,651,412	19,637,499	5,276,895	6,689,599	3,085,995	4,585,010	3,226	3,501	4,056	4,589	3,947
Public institutions	9,457,394	10,844,717	11,752,786	15,142,171	14,571,739	14,539,257	14,501,057	3,730,816	4,489,479	2,594,004	3,686,758	1,493	1,548	1,676	1,652	1,601
Federal	50,989	50,669	16,917	21,610	20,265	20,382	20,473	12,542	6,087	556	1,288	12	17	12	14	14
State	(2)	7,181,380	9,548,090	12,364,881	12,103,707	12,106,016	12,094,962	3,316,712	4,017,823	1,956,298	2,804,129	(2)	978	1,355	1,331	1,285
Local	(2)	3,508,941	2,078,090	2,542,044	2,246,845	2,214,951	2,185,273	353,734	405,845	600,691	825,003	(2)	523	277	261	260
Other public	9,406,405	103,727	109,689	213,636	200,922	197,908	200,349	47,828	59,724	36,459	56,338	1,481	30	32	46	42
Private institutions	2,639,501	2,973,920	3,559,503	5,877,267	5,206,412	5,112,155	5,136,442	1,546,079	2,200,120	491,991	898,252	1,733	1,953	2,380	2,937	2,346
Independent nonprofit	1,521,614	1,474,818	1,577,242	1,994,900	2,222,677	2,244,672	2,289,874	750,806	992,995	205,777	340,296	795	709	729	736	792
For-profit	111,714	213,693	450,084	2,022,785	1,097,923	980,309	991,179	213,328	395,783	110,689	271,379	164	322	724	1,310	688
Religiously affiliated3	1,006,173	1,285,409	1,532,177	1,859,582	1,885,812	1,887,174	1,855,389	581,945	811,342	175,525	286,577	774	922	927	891	866
Advent Christian Church	143	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	1	---	---	---	---
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	1,091	88	34	1,536	1,462	1,484	1,440	706	675	29	30	3	1	1	3	3
African Methodist Episcopal	4,541	3,220	5,980	2,674	5,887	5,633	5,433	1,374	1,561	1,134	1,364	6	5	6	5	6
American Baptist	6,131	10,800	15,410	15,120	12,500	12,622	13,024	3,800	5,070	1,435	2,719	11	15	17	18	17
American Evangelical Lutheran Church	---	---	743	1,340	1,394	1,443	1,476	695	711	35	35	---	---	1	1	1
American Lutheran and Lutheran Church      in America	3,092	---	1,460	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	3	---	1	---	---
American Lutheran	21,608	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	13	---	---	---	---
Assemblies of God Church	7,814	8,307	14,272	15,806	19,240	20,790	22,090	6,019	8,386	3,277	4,408	10	11	14	16	14
Baptist	38,231	99,510	107,610	174,538	111,124	113,415	127,688	39,685	51,665	16,928	19,410	33	69	68	69	60
Brethren Church	3,925	958	2,088	8,506	8,627	8,656	7,048	2,033	2,980	818	1,217	3	3	3	3	2
Brethren in Christ Church	1,301	2,239	2,797	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	1	1	1	---	---
Christian and Missionary Alliance      Church	1,705	2,519	5,278	6,455	6,122	6,351	6,190	1,578	2,027	1,036	1,549	3	4	4	4	4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	14,913	30,397	35,984	52,839	46,260	49,113	46,725	14,146	20,914	4,760	6,905	12	18	16	18	19
Christian Churches and Churches of      Christ	1,342	2,263	7,277	10,074	9,970	10,059	9,272	3,194	3,145	1,321	1,612	7	8	18	18	16
Christian Methodist Episcopal	2,486	2,174	1,502	4,817	4,053	3,824	3,663	1,798	1,721	73	71	4	4	1	3	3
Christian Reformed Church	5,408	4,488	5,999	5,625	5,714	5,630	5,412	2,381	2,425	323	283	3	2	3	3	3
Church of Christ (Scientist)	2,773	2,557	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	6	8	---	---	---
Church of God of Prophecy	---	249	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	1	---	---	---
Church of God	6,082	5,627	12,540	16,731	16,962	16,412	15,734	4,380	6,877	1,932	2,545	9	9	7	7	9
Church of New Jerusalem	170	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	1	---	---	---	---
Church of the Brethren	8,482	4,463	4,187	6,154	6,401	6,255	4,076	1,921	1,962	83	110	6	5	4	5	4
Church of the Nazarene	11,716	10,779	16,661	21,144	23,267	23,353	23,136	6,402	10,240	2,198	4,296	10	9	12	10	10
Churches of Christ	9,343	14,611	30,140	35,538	36,131	35,453	35,823	10,993	15,543	3,333	5,954	9	19	19	17	18
Cumberland Presbyterian	594	746	1,112	4,652	6,007	5,615	3,324	1,165	1,215	413	531	2	2	2	2	2
Episcopal Church, Reformed	67	---	---	---	1,286	1,179	1,123	70	279	117	657	1	---	---	---	2
Evangelical Christian	---	---	---	---	76,654	83,835	90,246	20,368	30,272	16,572	23,034	---	---	---	---	4
Evangelical Congregational Church	80	88	148	153	111	151	161	53	22	49	37	1	1	1	1	1
Evangelical Covenant Church of America	1,401	1,035	2,387	3,233	3,011	2,981	2,987	736	1,185	391	675	1	1	1	1	2
Evangelical Free Church of America	833	2,355	4,022	2,926	2,409	1,998	1,932	596	354	594	388	1	2	3	2	2
Evangelical Lutheran Church	743	49,210	49,085	56,162	49,960	52,138	51,199	19,804	26,772	1,629	2,994	3	33	34	33	27
Free Methodist	5,543	5,902	7,323	12,270	10,965	10,721	10,411	2,763	5,916	523	1,209	5	3	4	5	5
Free Will Baptist Church	1,132	1,177	2,378	528	704	733	827	311	275	127	114	4	3	4	3	4
Friends United Meeting	1,109	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	1	---	---	---	---
Friends	5,157	5,844	10,898	13,876	11,368	11,070	10,835	3,931	4,899	759	1,246	5	6	8	7	7
General Baptist	---	---	---	---	1,303	1,419	1,435	318	379	312	426	---	---	---	---	1
General Conference Mennonite Church	820	1,243	1,059	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	2	2	1	---	---
Greek Orthodox	204	148	132	220	170	350	365	220	122	9	14	1	1	1	1	2
Interdenominational	1,254	11,103	9,788	33,778	41,175	40,596	40,030	11,609	16,358	5,958	6,105	4	17	14	31	32
Jewish	5,738	12,217	14,182	12,755	14,066	14,221	14,847	10,766	2,760	394	927	24	63	62	36	36
Latter-Day Saints	39,172	42,274	44,680	53,514	91,403	82,012	78,488	25,374	27,313	10,749	15,052	4	4	4	4	4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	11,727	13,827	18,866	28,255	36,243	35,715	35,855	7,897	14,934	4,463	8,561	15	14	13	12	11
Lutheran Church in America	23,877	5,796	4,322	8,240	8,181	6,004	5,661	2,043	3,040	161	417	20	5	2	3	2
Mennonite Brethren Church	1,344	1,864	2,390	4,136	4,875	5,005	4,942	1,064	2,417	441	1,020	3	3	3	3	2
Mennonite Church	4,008	2,859	3,553	4,263	3,886	3,704	3,559	1,227	1,589	235	508	6	5	5	6	6
Missionary Church Inc	487	699	1,647	2,152	1,513	1,513	1,450	416	633	120	281	1	1	1	1	1
Moravian Church	2,434	2,511	2,939	3,095	3,430	3,356	3,304	805	1,733	167	599	2	2	2	2	2
Multiple Protestant denominations	5,526	211	4,690	5,350	4,766	4,663	4,531	950	1,534	1,131	916	8	1	7	6	6
Nondenominational	---	---	---	---	---	1,364	1,500	591	828	55	26	---	---	---	---	4
North American Baptist	155	---	124	120	229	306	419	79	31	200	109	1	---	1	1	1
Original Free Will Baptist	---	---	---	3,855	3,451	3,208	2,805	591	942	358	914	---	---	---	1	1
Pentecostal Holiness Church	767	566	976	1,272	1,623	1,518	1,476	697	579	94	106	3	3	2	3	2
Presbyterian	---	---	---	---	3,079	3,295	3,255	1,117	1,591	154	393	---	---	---	---	3
Presbyterian USA	47,144	77,700	78,950	85,719	80,862	80,691	78,076	28,143	37,424	3,749	8,760	57	70	64	58	54
Presbyterian Church in America	---	1,877	4,499	2,071	1,585	1,567	1,511	590	569	196	156	---	1	5	2	2
Protestant Episcopal	5,396	4,559	5,479	5,006	3,719	3,535	3,672	1,671	1,678	157	166	12	9	12	11	8
Protestant, other	4,072	38,136	30,116	13,450	19,238	18,960	18,796	5,212	7,038	2,858	3,688	11	44	34	23	26
Reformed Church in America	2,713	5,525	6,002	6,555	6,125	5,992	6,093	2,240	2,921	326	606	4	4	5	5	5
Reformed Presbyterian Church	2,014	1,556	2,355	2,982	2,393	2,325	2,458	1,175	832	259	192	4	2	2	3	3
Reorganized Latter-Day Saints Church	4,274	4,793	3,390	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	2	1	2	---	---
Roman Catholic	422,842	530,585	636,336	751,091	711,801	706,938	696,189	215,295	322,004	53,526	105,364	229	239	239	237	225
Russian Orthodox	47	38	106	60	89	90	85	69	6	10	0	1	1	1	1	1
Seventh-Day Adventists	19,168	15,771	19,223	25,430	23,602	23,298	22,411	7,024	10,373	1,803	3,211	11	11	13	14	13
Southern Baptist	85,281	49,493	54,275	49,936	60,043	65,762	54,340	15,716	19,755	8,088	10,781	54	29	32	22	21
Undenominational	---	6,758	23,573	27,748	36,006	35,983	34,738	7,708	11,682	5,927	9,421	---	14	16	16	19
Unitarian Universalist	87	82	132	166	178	164	162	28	81	15	38	2	2	2	2	2
United Brethren Church	545	601	938	1,260	1,321	1,302	1,384	408	693	122	161	1	1	1	1	1
United Church of Christ	14,169	20,175	23,709	20,537	15,324	15,336	15,529	5,024	6,561	1,263	2,681	16	18	18	17	14
United Methodist	127,099	148,851	171,109	206,744	200,217	200,108	188,478	67,544	91,548	10,919	18,467	91	96	100	96	89
Wesleyan Church	3,583	5,311	11,128	20,670	18,608	18,339	18,884	5,005	11,225	773	1,881	5	4	4	6	8
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	808	931	1,660	1,677	2,095	2,220	2,142	756	870	216	300	1	3	2	2	2
Other religiously affiliated	462	5,743	2,534	4,778	5,624	5,401	5,244	1,671	2,208	428	937	1	9	4	11	12

---Not available.

1 Counts of institutions in this table may be lower than reported in other tables because counts in this table exclude institutions reporting enrollment data through a parent school.

2 Included under "Other public."

3 Religious affiliation as reported by institution.

NOTE: Data in this table represent the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Data for 1980 and 1990 are for institutions of higher education, while later data are for degree-granting institutions. Degree-granting institutions grant associate's or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. The degree-granting classification is very similar to the earlier higher education classification, but it includes more 2-year colleges and excludes a few higher education institutions that did not grant degrees. Some data have been revised from previously published figures.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), "Fall Enrollment in Institutions of Higher Education" and "Institutional Characteristics" surveys, 1980; Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Fall Enrollment Survey" (IPEDS-EF:90) and "Institutional Characteristics Survey" (IPEDS-IC:90); and IPEDS Spring 2001 through Spring 2020, Fall Enrollment component. (This table was prepared February 2021.)