Total fall enrollment in degree-granting postsecondary institutions, by level of enrollment, control and level of institution, attendance status, and age of student: 2021

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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: 2021
Attendance status and age of student	Undergraduate										Postbaccalaureate
	Total	Public			Private nonprofit			Private for-profit			Total	Public	Private nonprofit	Private for-profit
	Total	Total	4-year	2-year	Total	4-year	2-year	Total	4-year	2-year	Total	Public	Private nonprofit	Private for-profit
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
	Number of students
All students	15,447,557	11,946,837	7,466,653	4,480,184	2,725,080	2,697,501	27,579	775,640	599,578	176,062	3,211,199	1,598,865	1,386,719	225,615
Under 18	1,487,087	1,364,485	550,871	813,614	118,983	118,338	645	3,619	3,150	469	140	68	64	8
18 and 19	4,142,857	3,252,302	2,196,556	1,055,746	835,535	830,072	5,463	55,020	33,740	21,280	1,242	685	500	57
20 and 21	3,828,125	2,904,755	2,222,299	682,456	847,944	844,675	3,269	75,426	51,910	23,516	50,600	29,393	20,532	675
22 to 24	2,123,547	1,679,777	1,163,638	516,139	339,539	335,932	3,607	104,231	75,582	28,649	742,804	402,075	326,515	14,214
25 to 29	1,421,006	1,069,096	570,638	498,458	186,914	181,999	4,915	164,996	126,370	38,626	981,786	507,982	430,914	42,890
30 to 34	882,426	621,964	297,492	324,472	129,298	125,795	3,503	131,164	106,254	24,910	502,509	254,938	207,946	39,625
35 to 39	575,902	388,167	179,796	208,371	94,291	92,054	2,237	93,444	78,219	15,225	316,716	151,610	128,769	36,337
40 to 49	634,403	419,592	186,768	232,824	112,416	109,879	2,537	102,395	86,269	16,126	391,674	170,636	165,230	55,808
50 to 64	297,063	204,174	82,728	121,446	51,253	50,183	1,070	41,636	35,072	6,564	200,137	75,014	91,820	33,303
65 and over	40,407	34,768	11,596	23,172	3,771	3,677	94	1,868	1,590	278	16,404	5,799	8,121	2,484
Age unknown	14,734	7,757	4,271	3,486	5,136	4,897	239	1,841	1,422	419	7,187	665	6,308	214

Full-time	9,496,957	6,737,486	5,285,501	1,451,985	2,232,862	2,210,288	22,574	526,609	359,133	167,476	1,829,386	868,512	863,829	97,045
Under 18	251,797	212,693	123,850	88,843	37,634	37,253	381	1,470	1,011	459	62	41	16	5
18 and 19	3,435,010	2,579,853	1,952,391	627,462	805,272	800,273	4,999	49,885	28,979	20,906	978	580	373	25
20 and 21	3,079,809	2,205,911	1,924,395	281,516	812,258	809,435	2,823	61,640	38,947	22,693	44,913	26,352	18,169	392
22 to 24	1,276,670	929,035	780,965	148,070	272,312	269,347	2,965	75,323	47,942	27,381	591,252	314,154	268,859	8,239
25 to 29	614,462	391,671	264,643	127,028	110,716	106,825	3,891	112,075	75,465	36,610	623,054	304,872	296,956	21,226
30 to 34	339,837	186,261	111,977	74,284	69,275	66,508	2,767	84,301	60,856	23,445	241,677	112,995	111,974	16,708
35 to 39	205,509	100,812	57,670	43,142	47,770	46,040	1,730	56,927	42,664	14,263	123,256	50,232	58,253	14,771
40 to 49	206,682	92,880	50,195	42,685	53,671	51,689	1,982	60,131	45,138	14,993	133,019	43,309	67,731	21,979
50 to 64	76,295	33,326	16,818	16,508	20,502	19,701	801	22,467	16,394	6,073	61,892	15,025	34,233	12,634
65 and over	4,280	2,552	1,036	1,516	787	725	62	941	686	255	4,628	889	2,814	925
Age unknown	6,606	2,492	1,561	931	2,665	2,492	173	1,449	1,051	398	4,655	63	4,451	141

Part-time	5,950,600	5,209,351	2,181,152	3,028,199	492,218	487,213	5,005	249,031	240,445	8,586	1,381,813	730,353	522,890	128,570
Under 18	1,235,290	1,151,792	427,021	724,771	81,349	81,085	264	2,149	2,139	10	78	27	48	3
18 and 19	707,847	672,449	244,165	428,284	30,263	29,799	464	5,135	4,761	374	264	105	127	32
20 and 21	748,316	698,844	297,904	400,940	35,686	35,240	446	13,786	12,963	823	5,687	3,041	2,363	283
22 to 24	846,877	750,742	382,673	368,069	67,227	66,585	642	28,908	27,640	1,268	151,552	87,921	57,656	5,975
25 to 29	806,544	677,425	305,995	371,430	76,198	75,174	1,024	52,921	50,905	2,016	358,732	203,110	133,958	21,664
30 to 34	542,589	435,703	185,515	250,188	60,023	59,287	736	46,863	45,398	1,465	260,832	141,943	95,972	22,917
35 to 39	370,393	287,355	122,126	165,229	46,521	46,014	507	36,517	35,555	962	193,460	101,378	70,516	21,566
40 to 49	427,721	326,712	136,573	190,139	58,745	58,190	555	42,264	41,131	1,133	258,655	127,327	97,499	33,829
50 to 64	220,768	170,848	65,910	104,938	30,751	30,482	269	19,169	18,678	491	138,245	59,989	57,587	20,669
65 and over	36,127	32,216	10,560	21,656	2,984	2,952	32	927	904	23	11,776	4,910	5,307	1,559
Age unknown	8,128	5,265	2,710	2,555	2,471	2,405	66	392	371	21	2,532	602	1,857	73
	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	9.6	11.4	7.4	18.2	4.4	4.4	2.4	0.5	0.5	0.3	#	#	#	#
18 and 19	26.8	27.2	29.4	23.6	30.7	30.8	20.0	7.1	5.6	12.1	#	#	#	#
20 and 21	24.8	24.3	29.8	15.2	31.2	31.4	12.0	9.7	8.7	13.4	1.6	1.8	1.5	0.3
22 to 24	13.8	14.1	15.6	11.5	12.5	12.5	13.2	13.5	12.6	16.3	23.2	25.2	23.7	6.3
25 to 29	9.2	9.0	7.6	11.1	6.9	6.8	18.0	21.3	21.1	22.0	30.6	31.8	31.2	19.0
30 to 34	5.7	5.2	4.0	7.2	4.8	4.7	12.8	17.0	17.8	14.2	15.7	16.0	15.1	17.6
35 to 39	3.7	3.3	2.4	4.7	3.5	3.4	8.2	12.1	13.1	8.7	9.9	9.5	9.3	16.1
40 to 49	4.1	3.5	2.5	5.2	4.1	4.1	9.3	13.2	14.4	9.2	12.2	10.7	12.0	24.8
50 to 64	1.9	1.7	1.1	2.7	1.9	1.9	3.9	5.4	5.9	3.7	6.2	4.7	6.7	14.8
65 and over	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.5	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.5	0.4	0.6	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	2.7	3.2	2.3	6.1	1.7	1.7	1.7	0.3	0.3	0.3	#	#	#	#
18 and 19	36.2	38.3	36.9	43.2	36.1	36.2	22.3	9.5	8.1	12.5	0.1	0.1	#	#
20 and 21	32.5	32.8	36.4	19.4	36.4	36.7	12.6	11.7	10.9	13.6	2.5	3.0	2.1	0.4
22 to 24	13.5	13.8	14.8	10.2	12.2	12.2	13.2	14.3	13.4	16.4	32.4	36.2	31.3	8.5
25 to 29	6.5	5.8	5.0	8.8	5.0	4.8	17.4	21.3	21.1	21.9	34.1	35.1	34.6	21.9
30 to 34	3.6	2.8	2.1	5.1	3.1	3.0	12.4	16.1	17.0	14.0	13.2	13.0	13.0	17.2
35 to 39	2.2	1.5	1.1	3.0	2.1	2.1	7.7	10.8	11.9	8.5	6.8	5.8	6.8	15.2
40 to 49	2.2	1.4	0.9	2.9	2.4	2.3	8.8	11.5	12.6	9.0	7.3	5.0	7.9	22.7
50 to 64	0.8	0.5	0.3	1.1	0.9	0.9	3.6	4.3	4.6	3.6	3.4	1.7	4.0	13.0
65 and over	#	#	#	0.1	#	#	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	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	20.8	22.1	19.6	24.0	16.6	16.7	5.3	0.9	0.9	0.1	#	#	#	#
18 and 19	11.9	12.9	11.2	14.2	6.2	6.1	9.4	2.1	2.0	4.4	#	#	#	#
20 and 21	12.6	13.4	13.7	13.3	7.3	7.3	9.0	5.5	5.4	9.6	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.2
22 to 24	14.3	14.4	17.6	12.2	13.7	13.7	13.0	11.6	11.5	14.8	11.0	12.0	11.1	4.6
25 to 29	13.6	13.0	14.0	12.3	15.6	15.5	20.7	21.3	21.2	23.5	26.0	27.8	25.7	16.9
30 to 34	9.1	8.4	8.5	8.3	12.3	12.2	14.9	18.8	18.9	17.1	18.9	19.5	18.4	17.8
35 to 39	6.2	5.5	5.6	5.5	9.5	9.5	10.3	14.7	14.8	11.2	14.0	13.9	13.5	16.8
40 to 49	7.2	6.3	6.3	6.3	12.0	12.0	11.2	17.0	17.1	13.2	18.8	17.4	18.7	26.3
50 to 64	3.7	3.3	3.0	3.5	6.3	6.3	5.4	7.7	7.8	5.7	10.0	8.2	11.1	16.1
65 and over	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.9	0.7	1.0	1.2
#Rounds to zero.
¹Percentage distributions exclude students whose age is unknown.
NOTE: Data in this table represent the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Data are for degree-granting institutions and U.S. service academies. Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Some data have been revised from previously published figures. 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), Fall Enrollment component, Spring 2022 (final data). (This table was prepared January 2024.)

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