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Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Minorities
NCES 2010-015
July 2010

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Table 24.4.

Fall enrollment in degree-granting institutions that are historically Black colleges and universities, in institutions that serve large proportions of Hispanic students, and in tribally controlled institutions, by selected race/ethnicity: 2007


Institution and race/ethnicity Enrollment
Enrollment in historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) 306,515
As a percentage of total enrollment 1.7
Black HBCU enrollment 253,415
As a percentage of total Black enrollment 10.6
   
Enrollment in institutions that serve large proportions of Hispanic students 2,453,109
As a percentage of total enrollment 13.4
Hispanic enrollment in institutions that serve large proportions of Hispanic students 1,034,762
As a percentage of total Hispanic enrollment 49.8
   
Enrollment in tribally controlled institutions 17,418
As a percentage of total enrollment 0.1
American Indian/Alaska Native enrollment in tribally controlled institutions 13,820
As a percentage of total American Indian/Alaska Native enrollment 7.3
NOTE: Historically Black colleges and universities are degree-granting institutions established prior to 1964 with the principal mission of educating Black Americans. Federal regulations, 20 U.S. Code, Section 1061 (2), allow for certain exceptions to the founding date. Institutions that serve large proportions of Hispanic students are defined as institutions with a full-time-equivalent undergraduate enrollment of Hispanic students that represent 25 percent or more of the full-time-equivalent undergraduate enrollment of U.S. citizens. Tribally controlled institutions are, with a few exceptions, tribally controlled and located on reservations—they are all members of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2007 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2008.