Table 303.90.

Fall enrollment and number of degree-granting postsecondary institutions, by control and religious affiliation of institution: Selected years, 1980 through 2020

Control and religious affiliation of institution	Total enrollment						Enrollment, fall 2020					Number of institutions1
	Fall 1980	Fall 1990	Fall 2000	Fall 2010	Fall 2018	Fall 2019	Total	Full-time		Part-time
								Males	Females	Males	Females	Fall 1980	Fall 1990	Fall 2000	Fall 2010	Fall 2020
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	19,651,412	19,630,178	18,991,798	4,980,417	6,610,936	2,889,128	4,511,317	3,226	3,501	4,056	4,589	3,928
Public institutions	9,457,394	10,844,717	11,752,786	15,142,171	14,539,257	14,503,647	13,867,239	3,469,999	4,420,195	2,387,520	3,589,525	1,493	1,548	1,676	1,652	1,586
Federal	50,989	50,669	16,917	21,610	20,382	20,473	20,829	12,289	6,146	648	1,746	12	17	12	14	14
State	(2)	7,181,380	9,548,090	12,364,881	12,106,016	12,095,124	11,691,920	3,116,502	3,975,454	1,839,907	2,760,057	(2)	978	1,355	1,331	1,278
Local3	(2)	3,508,941	2,078,090	2,542,044	2,214,951	2,187,701	1,966,223	297,608	380,989	514,257	773,369	(2)	523	277	261	253
Other public	9,406,405	103,727	109,689	213,636	197,908	200,349	188,267	43,600	57,606	32,708	54,353	1,481	30	32	46	41
Private institutions	2,639,501	2,973,920	3,559,503	5,877,267	5,112,155	5,126,531	5,124,559	1,510,418	2,190,741	501,608	921,792	1,733	1,953	2,380	2,937	2,342
Independent nonprofit	1,521,614	1,474,818	1,577,242	1,994,900	2,244,672	2,278,214	2,266,725	727,057	976,747	211,957	350,964	795	709	729	736	776
For-profit	111,714	213,693	450,084	2,022,785	980,309	991,159	1,023,540	215,326	414,121	112,068	282,025	164	322	724	1,310	704
Religiously affiliated4	1,006,173	1,285,409	1,532,177	1,859,582	1,887,174	1,857,158	1,834,294	568,035	799,873	177,583	288,803	774	922	927	891	862
Advent Christian Church	143	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	1	---	---	---	---
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	1,091	88	34	1,536	1,484	1,440	1,106	529	505	40	32	3	1	1	3	3
African Methodist Episcopal	4,541	3,220	5,980	2,674	5,633	5,433	4,299	1,288	1,418	730	863	6	5	6	5	6
American Baptist	6,131	10,800	15,410	15,120	12,622	13,024	13,377	3,842	5,082	1,626	2,827	11	15	17	18	17
American Evangelical Lutheran Church	---	---	743	1,340	1,443	1,476	1,499	656	779	21	43	---	---	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	20,790	22,090	21,253	5,879	8,095	3,054	4,225	10	11	14	16	15
Baptist	38,231	99,510	107,610	174,538	113,415	127,696	130,284	38,589	52,596	18,212	20,887	33	69	68	69	60
Brethren Church	3,925	958	2,088	8,506	8,656	7,048	6,348	1,742	2,757	731	1,118	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	6,351	6,190	6,101	1,530	2,124	963	1,484	3	4	4	4	4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	14,913	30,397	35,984	52,839	49,113	46,725	44,610	13,823	20,318	4,283	6,186	12	18	16	18	19
Christian Churches and Churches of     Christ	1,342	2,263	7,277	10,074	10,059	9,272	8,617	2,999	2,916	1,187	1,515	7	8	18	18	15
Christian Methodist Episcopal	2,486	2,174	1,502	4,817	3,824	3,663	3,299	1,526	1,562	96	115	4	4	1	3	3
Christian Reformed Church	5,408	4,488	5,999	5,625	5,630	5,412	5,214	2,188	2,318	351	357	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	16,412	15,734	16,043	4,086	6,717	2,200	3,040	9	9	7	7	9
Church of New Jerusalem	170	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	1	---	---	---	---
Church of the Brethren	8,482	4,463	4,187	6,154	6,255	4,076	3,985	1,941	1,836	87	121	6	5	4	5	4
Church of the Nazarene	11,716	10,779	16,661	21,144	23,353	23,136	21,908	6,250	9,952	1,884	3,822	10	9	12	10	10
Churches of Christ	9,343	14,611	30,140	35,538	35,453	35,823	36,660	10,709	15,583	3,638	6,730	9	19	19	17	18
Cumberland Presbyterian	594	746	1,112	4,652	5,615	4,775	4,184	1,302	1,488	531	863	2	2	2	2	2
Episcopal Church, Reformed	67	---	---	---	1,179	1,123	1,187	67	315	101	704	1	---	---	---	2
Evangelical Christian	---	---	---	---	83,835	90,246	97,970	23,214	33,688	17,359	23,709	---	---	---	---	4
Evangelical Congregational Church	80	88	148	153	151	161	179	56	25	63	35	1	1	1	1	1
Evangelical Covenant Church of America	1,401	1,035	2,387	3,233	2,981	2,987	2,924	762	1,139	387	636	1	1	1	1	2
Evangelical Free Church of America	833	2,355	4,022	2,926	1,998	1,932	1,626	569	308	450	299	1	2	3	2	2
Evangelical Lutheran Church	743	49,210	49,085	56,162	52,138	51,199	49,488	19,161	26,033	1,556	2,738	3	33	34	33	27
Free Methodist	5,543	5,902	7,323	12,270	10,721	10,411	10,048	2,539	5,711	511	1,287	5	3	4	5	5
Free Will Baptist Church	1,132	1,177	2,378	528	733	827	744	288	266	82	108	4	3	4	3	4
Friends United Meeting	1,109	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	1	---	---	---	---
Friends	5,157	5,844	10,898	13,876	11,070	10,814	10,543	3,658	4,736	770	1,379	5	6	8	7	7
General Baptist	---	---	---	---	1,419	1,435	1,241	287	323	254	377	---	---	---	---	1
General Conference Mennonite Church	820	1,243	1,059	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	2	2	1	---	---
Greek Orthodox	204	148	132	220	350	365	375	210	128	20	17	1	1	1	1	2
Interdenominational	1,254	11,103	9,788	33,778	40,596	40,030	40,069	11,408	16,175	6,181	6,305	4	17	14	31	32
Jewish	5,738	12,217	14,182	12,755	14,221	14,847	15,976	11,740	2,731	412	1,093	24	63	62	36	36
Latter-Day Saints	39,172	42,274	44,680	53,514	82,012	78,488	85,951	26,258	28,383	13,480	17,830	4	4	4	4	4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	11,727	13,827	18,866	28,255	35,715	35,856	30,305	6,930	11,675	4,076	7,624	15	14	13	12	10
Lutheran Church in America	23,877	5,796	4,322	8,240	6,004	5,661	5,192	1,871	2,784	128	409	20	5	2	3	2
Mennonite Brethren Church	1,344	1,864	2,390	4,136	5,005	4,942	4,637	1,079	2,267	399	892	3	3	3	3	2
Mennonite Church	4,008	2,859	3,553	4,263	3,704	3,559	3,580	1,210	1,582	219	569	6	5	5	6	6
Missionary Church Inc	487	699	1,647	2,152	1,513	1,450	1,362	398	647	93	224	1	1	1	1	1
Moravian Church	2,434	2,511	2,939	3,095	3,356	3,304	3,241	784	1,665	170	622	2	2	2	2	2
Multiple Protestant denominations	5,526	211	4,690	5,350	4,663	4,531	4,307	879	1,384	1,089	955	8	1	7	6	6
Nondenominational	---	---	---	---	1,364	1,500	1,505	587	819	59	40	---	---	---	---	6
North American Baptist	155	---	124	120	306	419	508	76	58	262	112	1	---	1	1	1
Original Free Will Baptist	---	---	---	3,855	3,208	2,805	2,536	553	850	290	843	---	---	---	1	1
Pentecostal Holiness Church	767	566	976	1,272	1,518	1,476	1,369	665	520	88	96	3	3	2	3	2
Presbyterian	---	---	---	---	3,295	3,255	3,186	1,066	1,610	152	358	---	---	---	---	3
Presbyterian USA	47,144	77,700	78,950	85,719	80,691	78,054	76,414	26,918	36,527	3,842	9,127	57	70	64	58	54
Presbyterian Church in America	---	1,877	4,499	2,071	1,567	1,511	1,504	499	513	287	205	---	1	5	2	2
Protestant Episcopal	5,396	4,559	5,479	5,006	3,535	3,817	3,768	1,586	1,685	217	280	12	9	12	11	8
Protestant, other	4,072	38,136	30,116	13,450	18,960	18,796	18,637	5,043	6,769	2,986	3,839	11	44	34	23	26
Reformed Church in America	2,713	5,525	6,002	6,555	5,992	6,093	6,155	2,259	2,933	355	608	4	4	5	5	5
Reformed Presbyterian Church	2,014	1,556	2,355	2,982	2,325	2,458	2,292	1,081	793	239	179	4	2	2	3	2
Reorganized Latter-Day Saints Church	4,274	4,793	3,390	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	2	1	2	---	---
Roman Catholic	422,842	530,585	636,336	751,091	706,938	696,264	681,976	208,686	318,208	52,357	102,725	229	239	239	237	223
Russian Orthodox	47	38	106	60	90	85	79	61	5	12	1	1	1	1	1	1
Seventh-Day Adventists	19,168	15,771	19,223	25,430	23,298	22,408	21,696	6,629	9,878	1,789	3,400	11	11	13	14	13
Southern Baptist	85,281	49,493	54,275	49,936	65,762	54,340	54,730	15,939	20,718	7,703	10,370	54	29	32	22	22
Undenominational	---	6,758	23,573	27,748	35,983	34,748	34,404	7,117	10,979	6,077	10,231	---	14	16	16	18
Unitarian Universalist	87	82	132	166	164	162	170	36	63	19	52	2	2	2	2	2
United Brethren Church	545	601	938	1,260	1,302	1,384	1,391	373	644	140	234	1	1	1	1	1
United Church of Christ	14,169	20,175	23,709	20,537	15,336	15,529	15,556	4,931	6,578	1,334	2,713	16	18	18	17	14
United Methodist	127,099	148,851	171,109	206,744	200,108	188,603	181,339	64,236	87,704	10,704	18,695	91	96	100	96	87
Wesleyan Church	3,583	5,311	11,128	20,670	18,339	18,884	18,091	5,003	11,007	619	1,462	5	4	4	6	8
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	808	931	1,660	1,677	2,220	2,142	2,134	770	875	200	289	1	3	2	2	2
Other religiously affiliated	462	5,743	2,534	4,778	5,401	5,244	5,122	1,674	2,126	418	904	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 Includes public institutions whose primary control was territorial, school district, county, city, or special district.

4 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 2021, Fall Enrollment component. (This table was prepared January 2022.)