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Table 202.Total number of institutions and fall enrollment in institutions of higher education, by percentage minority enrollment: 1993\1\

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                             |           |              Public institutions                      |             Private institutions
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   Percentage of minority    |           |           |     4-year institutions        |          |          |     4-year institutions       |
     student enrollment      |   Total   |           |________________________________|          |          |_______________________________|
                             |enrollment |           |          | Univer-  |  Other   |  2-year  |          |          | Univer- |  Other   | 2-year
                             |           |   Total   |  Total   |   sity   |  4-year  |          |  Total   |  Total   |  sity   |  4-year  |
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              1              |     2     |     3     |    4     |    5     |    6     |    7     |    8     |    9     |   10    |    11    |   12
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All institutions             |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |         |          |
   Number of institutions....|     3,546 |     1,593 |      599 |       94 |      505 |      994 |    1,953 |    1,551 |      62 |    1,489 |    402
   Total enrollment..........|14,305,658 |11,189,088 |5,851,760 |2,259,692 |3,592,068 |5,337,328 |3,116,570 |2,888,031 | 763,036 |2,124,995 |228,539
   U.S. citizens.............|13,848,811 |10,884,714 |5,635,019 |2,134,958 |3,500,061 |5,249,695 |2,964,097 |2,739,149 | 696,460 |2,042,689 |224,948
   Minority..................| 3,245,065 | 2,658,131 |1,202,132 |  346,148 |  855,984 |1,455,999 |  586,934 |  528,842 | 149,104 |  379,738 | 58,092
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80 percent or more minority  |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |         |          |
enrollment                   |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |         |          |
   Number of institutions....|       171 |        79 |       35 |        0 |       35 |       44 |       92 |       66 |       1 |       65 |     26
   Total enrollment..........|   556,274 |   460,850 |  205,857 |        0 |  205,857 |  254,993 |   95,424 |   79,128 |  10,538 |   68,590 | 16,296
   U.S. citizens.............|   539,019 |   446,680 |  199,324 |        0 |  199,324 |  247,356 |   92,339 |   76,219 |   9,707 |   66,512 | 16,120
   Minority..................|   488,007 |   399,644 |  182,273 |        0 |  182,273 |  217,371 |   88,363 |   74,052 |   9,535 |   64,517 | 14,311
                             |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |         |          |
60 to 79 percent minority    |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |         |          |
enrollment                   |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |         |          |
   Number of institutions....|       108 |        66 |       21 |        1 |       20 |       45 |       42 |       19 |       0 |       19 |     23
   Total enrollment..........|   569,698 |   527,789 |  171,100 |   20,061 |  151,039 |  356,689 |   41,909 |   32,075 |       0 |   32,075 |  9,834
   U.S. citizens.............|   544,707 |   504,666 |  162,243 |   18,152 |  144,091 |  342,423 |   40,041 |   30,809 |       0 |   30,809 |  9,232
   Minority..................|   379,473 |   352,988 |  114,920 |   13,233 |  101,687 |  238,068 |   26,485 |   20,316 |       0 |   20,316 |  6,169
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40 to 59 percent minority    |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |         |          |
enrollment                   |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |         |          |
   Number of institutions....|       229 |       118 |       30 |        2 |       28 |       88 |      111 |       61 |       1 |       60 |     50
   Total enrollment..........| 1,221,442 | 1,074,626 |  425,175 |   64,787 |  360,388 |  649,451 |  146,816 |  125,998 |  27,658 |   98,340 | 20,818
   U.S. citizens.............| 1,169,217 | 1,034,677 |  408,713 |   61,004 |  347,709 |  625,964 |  134,540 |  114,058 |  23,388 |   90,670 | 20,482
   Minority..................|   564,055 |   500,983 |  196,088 |   32,680 |  163,408 |  304,895 |   63,072 |   53,099 |   9,571 |   43,528 |  9,973
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20 to 39 percent minority    |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |         |          |
enrollment                   |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |         |          |
   Number of institutions....|       693 |       337 |       97 |       16 |       81 |      240 |      356 |      271 |      27 |      244 |     85
   Total enrollment..........| 3,522,345 | 2,723,626 |1,176,854 |  453,736 |  723,118 |1,546,772 |  798,719 |  755,810 | 338,353 |  417,457 | 42,909
   U.S. citizens.............| 3,389,026 | 2,648,489 |1,128,007 |  426,170 |  701,837 |1,520,482 |  740,537 |  698,306 | 302,230 |  396,076 | 42,231
   Minority..................|   927,261 |   729,818 |  303,409 |  114,758 |  188,651 |  426,409 |  197,443 |  184,957 |  77,253 |  107,704 | 12,486
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Less than 20 percent minority|           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |         |          |
enrollment                   |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |         |          |
   Number of institutions....|     2,345 |       993 |      416 |       75 |      341 |      577 |    1,352 |    1,134 |      33 |    1,101 |    218
   Total enrollment..........| 8,435,899 | 6,402,197 |3,872,774 |1,721,108 |2,151,666 |2,529,423 |2,033,702 |1,895,020 | 386,487 |1,508,533 |138,682
   U.S. citizens.............| 8,206,842 | 6,250,202 |3,736,732 |1,629,632 |2,107,100 |2,513,470 |1,956,640 |1,819,757 | 361,135 |1,458,622 |136,883
   Minority..................|   886,269 |   674,698 |  405,442 |  185,477 |  219,965 |  269,256 |  211,571 |  196,418 |  52,745 |  143,673 | 15,153
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\1\Preliminary data. Minority includes black, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaskan Native students.

NOTE.-Some institutions do not report separate enrollment data for each branch campus. For this reason, counts of institutions in this table are somewhat lower than figures appearing in other tables.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Fall Enrollment" survey. (This table was prepared June 1995.)


1995 Tables and Figures All Years of Tables and Figures Most Recent Full Issue of the Digest