How many colleges are there in America?

k1ngc0br4 · 06-14-2005, 01:57 PM

driver · 06-14-2005, 02:16 PM

Carolyn will know

Papa Chicken · 06-14-2005, 02:56 PM

here's a pretty good list, but I haven't counted them myself.......

http://www.50states.com/college/

4-year colleges.....I'll take a SWAG at 2000.......that is, many, many more than Princeton Review's 357

hoedown · 06-14-2005, 08:13 PM

Depends on how you're counting.

Approximately 4,168 if you count all 2- and 4-year colleges, including those that are for-profit.

Approximately 2,169 if you want to narrow that down to just the 4-year, non-profit institutions.

carolyn · 06-14-2005, 09:33 PM

Hoedown is on target. Here are the numbers I have from the US Department of Education:

Total number of 4 year degree granting institutions: 2364

Public 4 year institutions: 612
Doctoral level publics: 166
Master's level publics: 282
Bac. only publics: 101
Other 4 year degree granting publics: 63

Private 4 year colleges: 1752
Doctoral level privates: 86
Master's level: 386
Bac. only: 546
Other: 742

The U.S. News & World Report "ranking" includes approximately 1400 4-year colleges.

If you want to see the breakdown by state, go to the site where I pulled these numbers from: http://nces.ed.gov//programs/digest/d02/dt244.asp