Tables: Postsecondary/College

¹Includes students who attended a public less-than-2-year institution, public 4-year institution, private nonprofit institution, or more than one institution.

²Black includes African American, Hispanic includes Latino, and Other includes American Indian or Alaska Native, Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian, and persons of Two or more races. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity.

³Family income is the 2014 income of parents of dependent students, or the 2014 income of independent students and (if married) their spouse.

⁴Excludes 0.6 percent of subbaccalaureate occupational education students who did not know their parents’ highest level of education.

NOTE: Occupational education consists of agriculture and natural resources; business and marketing; communication and communications technologies; computer and information sciences; consumer services (personal and culinary services; family, consumer, and human sciences; and parks, recreation, and fitness studies); education; engineering, architecture, and science technologies; health sciences; manufacturing, construction, repair, and transportation; protective services; and public, legal, and social services (legal professions and studies; library science; theology and religious vocations; and public administration and social services). Data include students enrolled in Title IV eligible postsecondary institutions in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The estimated number of subbaccalaureate occupational students is approximately 6,705,000. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2015–16 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:16).

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Table P177. Percentage distribution of subbaccalaureate occupational education students across selected institution types, by selected student characteristics: 2015–16

Student characteristic	Public 2-year	Private for-profit	Other¹
All subbaccalaureate occupational education students	63.3	15.7	21.0
Sex
Male	68.8	11.4	19.8
Female	59.3	18.9	21.8
Age (as of 12/31/15)
Younger than 25	65.6	13.0	21.4
25–34	59.8	19.0	21.2
35 or older	62.6	17.8	19.6
Race/ethnicity²
White	65.3	13.4	21.2
Black	54.4	25.2	20.4
Hispanic	63.7	15.7	20.7
Asian	69.9	8.1	21.9
Other	66.8	12.7	20.6
Family income³
Lowest 25 percent	60.6	19.1	20.3
Middle 50 percent	62.6	16.5	21.0
Highest 25 percent	69.0	9.2	21.8
Parents’ highest level of education⁴
High school or less	63.9	17.3	18.8
Some college, no bachelor’s degree	63.2	15.7	21.2
Bachelor’s or higher degree	62.9	14.2	22.9

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