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Table 209. -  Total number of institutions and fall enrollment in institutions of higher education and degree-granting institutions, by percentage minority enrollment: 1996\1\
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                        |     Degree-granting institutions\2\         |            Institutions of higher education
                        |_____________________________________________|______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                        |           |           |                     |           |              Public institutions                      |             Private institutions
                        |           |  Public   |Private institutions |           |_______________________________________________________|__________________________________________________
 Minority percentage of |           | institu-  |_____________________|           |           |     4-year institutions        |          |          |     4-year institutions      |
U.S. citizen enrollment |   Total   |   tions   |          |          |   Total   |           |________________________________|          |          |______________________________|
                        |enrollment |           |  Total   |Nonprofit |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    |    13    |   14   |    15    |   16
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  All institutions      |           |           |          |          |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |        |          |
Number of institutions..|     3,842 |     1,645 |    2,197 |    1,633 |     3,534 |     1,595 |      604 |       94 |      510 |      991 |    1,939 |    1,590 |     62 |    1,528 |    349
Total enrollment........|14,367,520 |11,120,499 |3,247,021 |2,942,556 |14,300,255 |11,090,171 |5,806,904 |2,226,529 |3,580,375 |5,283,267 |3,210,084 |2,995,931 |758,436 |2,237,495 |214,153
U.S. citizens...........|13,901,261 |10,816,704 |3,084,557 |2,786,500 |13,835,307 |10,786,503 |5,591,883 |2,107,310 |3,484,573 |5,194,620 |3,048,804 |2,837,482 |688,756 |2,148,726 |211,322
Minority................| 3,637,396 | 2,944,838 |  692,558 |  592,567 | 3,609,273 | 2,938,218 |1,332,254 |  385,711 |  946,543 |1,605,964 |  671,055 |  613,903 |173,409 |  440,494 | 57,152
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90.0 percent or more    |           |           |          |          |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |        |          |
 minority enrollment    |           |           |          |          |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |        |          |
  Number of institutions|       126 |        54 |       72 |       65 |       119 |        51 |       27 |        0 |       27 |       24 |       68 |       60 |      1 |       59 |      8
  Total enrollment......|   335,456 |   254,927 |   80,529 |   74,733 |   331,558 |   253,277 |  134,263 |        0 |  134,263 |  119,014 |   78,281 |   75,080 | 10,248 |   64,832 |  3,201
  U.S. citizens.........|   326,126 |   248,230 |   77,896 |   72,213 |   322,296 |   246,586 |  131,077 |        0 |  131,077 |  115,509 |   75,710 |   72,565 |  9,230 |   63,335 |  3,145
  Minority..............|   311,153 |   234,916 |   76,237 |   70,900 |   307,549 |   233,325 |  123,598 |        0 |  123,598 |  109,727 |   74,224 |   71,146 |  9,092 |   62,054 |  3,078
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75.0 to 89.9 percent    |           |           |          |          |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |        |          |
 minority enrollment    |           |           |          |          |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |        |          |
  Number of institutions|       107 |        62 |       45 |       18 |        94 |        60 |       19 |        1 |       18 |       41 |       34 |       16 |      0 |       16 |     18
  Total enrollment......|   488,998 |   460,936 |   28,062 |   12,017 |   481,587 |   458,599 |  140,579 |   18,243 |  122,336 |  318,020 |   22,988 |   12,641 |      0 |   12,641 | 10,347
  U.S. citizens.........|   470,459 |   443,183 |   27,276 |   11,588 |   462,804 |   440,862 |  134,116 |   16,700 |  117,416 |  306,746 |   21,942 |   11,806 |      0 |   11,806 | 10,136
  Minority..............|   385,921 |   362,877 |   23,044 |    9,937 |   379,454 |   360,833 |  110,524 |   12,625 |   97,899 |  250,309 |   18,621 |   10,212 |      0 |   10,212 |  8,409
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50.0 to 74.9 percent    |           |           |          |          |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |        |          |
 minority enrollment    |           |           |          |          |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |        |          |
  Number of institutions|       246 |       120 |      126 |       58 |       210 |       114 |       32 |        2 |       30 |       82 |       96 |       44 |      0 |       44 |     52
  Total enrollment......| 1,197,816 | 1,074,225 |  123,591 |   82,738 | 1,182,427 | 1,074,222 |  433,436 |   65,391 |  368,045 |  640,786 |  108,205 |   85,018 |      0 |   85,018 | 23,187
  U.S. citizens.........| 1,154,525 | 1,034,620 |  119,905 |   79,760 | 1,139,156 | 1,034,618 |  414,550 |   61,568 |  352,982 |  620,068 |  104,538 |   81,856 |      0 |   81,856 | 22,682
  Minority..............|   694,904 |   621,310 |   73,594 |   48,900 |   685,879 |   621,402 |  249,022 |   35,567 |  213,455 |  372,380 |   64,477 |   50,149 |      0 |   50,149 | 14,328
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25.0 to 49.9 percent    |           |           |          |          |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |        |          |
 minority enrollment    |           |           |          |          |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |        |          |
  Number of institutions|       757 |       341 |      416 |      243 |       674 |       331 |      100 |       12 |       88 |      231 |      343 |      257 |     24 |      233 |     86
  Total enrollment......| 3,442,962 | 2,634,608 |  808,354 |  697,903 | 3,415,624 | 2,631,482 |1,105,144 |  345,688 |  759,456 |1,526,338 |  784,142 |  737,160 |326,898 |  410,262 | 46,982
  U.S. citizens.........| 3,304,936 | 2,560,069 |  744,867 |  637,355 | 3,279,085 | 2,556,985 |1,061,769 |  325,616 |  736,153 |1,495,216 |  722,100 |  675,781 |291,724 |  384,057 | 46,319
  Minority..............| 1,132,602 |   879,263 |  253,339 |  214,251 | 1,123,922 |   878,760 |  356,416 |  106,104 |  250,312 |  522,344 |  245,162 |  229,427 | 96,858 |  132,569 | 15,735
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10.0 to 24.9 percent    |           |           |          |          |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |        |          |
 minority enrollment    |           |           |          |          |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |        |          |
  Number of institutions|     1,323 |       554 |      769 |      601 |     1,228 |       540 |      223 |       53 |      170 |      317 |      688 |      603 |     33 |      570 |     85
  Total enrollment......| 5,774,973 | 4,412,930 |1,362,043 |1,267,839 | 5,790,321 | 4,405,394 |2,639,722 |1,343,594 |1,296,128 |1,765,672 |1,384,927 |1,298,966 |364,945 |  934,021 | 85,961
  U.S. citizens.........| 5,578,543 | 4,286,835 |1,291,708 |1,199,594 | 5,593,975 | 4,279,307 |2,531,223 |1,268,716 |1,262,507 |1,748,084 |1,314,668 |1,229,342 |334,068 |  895,274 | 85,326
  Minority..............|   926,868 |   710,039 |  216,829 |  201,092 |   928,093 |   708,377 |  409,707 |  201,337 |  208,370 |  298,670 |  219,716 |  206,534 | 63,859 |  142,675 | 13,182
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Less than 10.0 percent  |           |           |          |          |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |        |          |
 minority enrollment    |           |           |          |          |           |           |          |          |          |          |          |          |        |          |
  Number of institutions|     1,283 |       514 |      769 |      648 |     1,209 |       499 |      203 |       26 |      177 |      296 |      710 |      610 |      4 |      606 |    100
  Total enrollment......| 3,127,315 | 2,282,873 |  844,442 |  807,326 | 3,098,738 | 2,267,197 |1,353,760 |  453,613 |  900,147 |  913,437 |  831,541 |  787,066 | 56,345 |  730,721 | 44,475
  U.S. citizens.........| 3,066,672 | 2,243,767 |  822,905 |  785,990 | 3,037,991 | 2,228,145 |1,319,148 |  434,710 |  884,438 |  908,997 |  809,846 |  766,132 | 53,734 |  712,398 | 43,714
  Minority..............|   185,948 |   136,433 |   49,515 |   47,487 |   184,376 |   135,521 |   82,987 |   30,078 |   52,909 |   52,534 |   48,855 |   46,435 |  3,600 |   42,835 |  2,420
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\1\Preliminary data. Minority includes black, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaskan Native students.
\2\Data are for 4-year and 2-year degree-granting higher education institutions that were eligible to participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs.

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. Tabulations of institutions of higher education data are based on institutions that were accredited by an agency or association that was recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. The Department of Education no longer distinguishes between those institutions and other institutions that are eligible to participate in Title IV programs. The new degree-granting classification is very similar to the earlier higher education classification, except that it includes some additional institutions, primarily 2-year colleges, and excludes a few higher education institutions that did not award degrees.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Fall Enrollment" survey. (This table was prepared January 1999.)


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