• Introduction
• Characteristics of Enrolled Students
• Characteristics of Students at Degree-Granting and Non-Degree-Granting Institutions
• Residence and Migration of First-Time, Degree/Certificate-Seeking Undergraduate Students
• Revenues of Degree-Granting Institutions
• First-Time, Full-Time Undergraduate Financial Aid Recipients

This report presents findings from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) spring 2001 data collection, which included enrollment data for fall 2000, financial statistics for fiscal year 2000, and student financial aid data for academic year 1999–2000. These data were collected through the IPEDS web-based data collection system.

IPEDS collects data from about 9,400 postsecondary institutions in the United States (the 50 states and the District of Columbia) and its outlying areas.¹ For IPEDS, a postsecondary institution is defined as an organization that is open to the public and has as its primary mission the provision of postsecondary education. IPEDS defines postsecondary education as formal instructional programs with a curriculum designed primarily for students who are beyond the compulsory age for high school. This includes academic, vocational, and continuing professional education programs and excludes institutions that offer only avocational (leisure) and adult basic education programs.

Participation in the IPEDS spring 2001 data collection was a requirement for the approximately 6,600 institutions that participated in Title IV federal student financial aid programs such as Pell Grants or Stafford Loans during the 2000–01 academic year.² In addition, institutions that did not participate in Title IV programs were offered the opportunity to participate in the IPEDS data collection process.

Tabulations in this report present data collected from the approximately 6,600 Title IV postsecondary institutions in spring 2001. Institutions were asked to provide data on enrollments, finance, student financial aid, and graduation rates; however, this report focuses primarily on enrollment data, with a few summary tables on finance and student financial aid. Graduation rate data are not included because Title IV 4-year institutions were not required to provide these data in spring 2001.³

In fall 2000, 15.9 million students were enrolled in the 6,600 Title IV postsecondary institutions in the United States and its outlying areas. Of these students, 86.3 percent were enrolled in undergraduate programs, 11.7 percent were enrolled in graduate programs, and 1.9 percent were enrolled in first-professional programs. The majority of students, 59.5 percent, were enrolled full time, while 40.5 percent were enrolled part time (table A).

About 56.4 percent of postsecondary students enrolled in Title IV institutions in fall 2000 were women, while the remaining 43.6 percent were men. White, non-Hispanic students constituted 63.3 percent and minority students constituted 27.9 percent of enrollment in Title IV institutions in fall 2000. The remaining enrollment in Title IV institutions was made up of students whose race/ethnicity was unknown and nonresident aliens (5.3 percent and 3.4 percent, respectively) (table A).

Table A. Enrollment in Title IV institutions, by student level, attendance status, gender, and race/ethnicity: United States and outlying areas, fall 2000

During fall 2000, 15.7 million students attended Title IV institutions located within the United States. Almost all of these students (15.3 million) attended degree-granting institutions, while fewer than 400,000 students attended non-degree-granting institutions (table B).

A majority of students attending both degree-granting institutions and non-degree-granting institutions attended school full time (58.8 percent and 72.7 percent, respectively). Likewise, the majority of students attending both degree-granting and non-degree-granting institutions were women (56.1 percent and 64.6 percent, respectively). However, the proportion of students attending degree-granting or non-degree-granting institutions differed by race/ethnicity. Table B shows that 64.6 percent of the students attending degree-granting institutions were White, non-Hispanic, 26.6 percent were minority students, and the remainder were either students whose race/ethnicity was unknown (5.4 percent) or nonresident aliens (3.5 percent). Although students attending non-degree-granting institutions were also mostly White, non-Hispanic (51.8 percent), 41.4 percent were minority students, while 6.8 percent consisted of students whose race/ethnicity was unknown and nonresident aliens.

Table B. Enrollment in Title IV institutions, by degree-granting status, level and control of institution, attendance status, gender, and race/ ethnicity: United States, fall 2000

The spring 2001 IPEDS Collection included enrollment by state of residence⁵ for all students (both full time and part time) who were considered first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates in fall 2000. Table C includes the percentage of a state's enrollment of first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students in Title IV degree-granting institutions who were residents of other states. In the District of Columbia, the highest percentage of first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students came from other states (89.8 percent). Three states also had more than half of their first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students coming from other states: New Hampshire (61.4 percent), Rhode Island (59.4 percent), and Vermont (62.9 percent). Two states, Illinois and New Jersey, had less than 10 percent of their first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate enrollment coming from other states (9.8 percent and 9.7 percent, respectively). Overall, 15.4 percent of the 2.5 million first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students at Title IV postsecondary schools in fall 2000 attended an institution outside of their home state of residence.

Table C also includes the percentage of first-time, degree/certificate-seeking students who left their state of residence to attend a Title IV degree-granting institution in a different state. This percentage varied considerably, ranging from a low of 6.6 percent in Mississippi to a high of 66.2 percent in the District of Columbia. Other states with less than 10 percent of their first-time, degree/certificate-seeking students leaving to attend school in another state were Alabama (9.5 percent), Arizona (8.7 percent), California (7.9 percent), Louisiana (8.7 percent), Michigan (9.7 percent), North Carolina (8.1 percent), Oklahoma (9.7 percent), Texas (8.1 percent), and Utah (7.9 percent). Only the District of Columbia sent more than half of its first-time, degree/certificate-seeking students elsewhere to attend college.

Table C. Migration of all first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students in Title IV degree-granting institutions, by state: Fall 2000

The finance component of the spring 2001 IPEDS collected information on the revenues and expenditures of Title IV institutions during fiscal year 2000. Revenue data were collected by source of revenue, such as tuition and fees and government appropriations, while expenditure data were collected by purpose of expenditure, including instruction, research, and public service.

As shown in table D, the largest source of revenues differed by level and control of institution. Public 4-year institutions received about one-third (32.2 percent) of their current funds revenues from government appropriations, while public 2year institutions received more than half (56.6 percent) of their current funds revenues from government appropriations. Both public 4-year and public 2-year institutions received about one-fifth of their current funds revenues from tuition and fees (18.1 percent and 20.3 percent, respectively).

Private not-for-profit 4-year institutions received about one-third of their revenues (31.5 percent) from investment return and a quarter of their revenues (24.4 percent) from tuition and fees. Private for-profit institutions, regardless of level, received the largest proportion of their revenues from tuition and fees. Four-year private for-profit institutions received 86.1 percent of their revenues from tuition and fees, and 2-year private for-profit institutions received 81.0 percent of their revenues from tuition and fees.

Table D. Revenues of Title IV degree-granting institutions, by level and control of institution and source of funds: United States, fiscal year 2000

The student financial aid component of the spring 2001 IPEDS collected information on the proportion of first-time, full-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates who received financial aid at any time during the 1999–2000 academic year. In fall 1999, there were 1.8 million first-time, full-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates. About 70 percent of these students received some form of financial aid. Proportions of first-time, full-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates who received financial aid varied by control and level of institution, ranging from about 56 percent at public 2-year institutions to about 82 percent at both private for-profit 2-year institutions and private not-for-profit 4-year institutions (table E).

Table E. Fall enrollment of first-time, full-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates and those with financial aid in Title IV degree-granting institutions, by control and level of institution: United States, academic year 1999–2000