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US Colleges and Universities (accredited institutions)

Public 4-year 653

Public 2-year (community colleges) 1,127

Private 4-year, nonprofit 1,551

Private 4-year, for-profit 530

Private 2-year, nonprofit 183

Private 2-year, for-profit 893

TOTAL 4,937

Private 4-year for-profit institutions are now the fastest

growing sector in US higher education.

Enrollments statistics:

At public 4-year institutions - 7,331,809 (38% of students enrolled at 13% of institutions; average enrollment 11,228 students per institution)

At public 2-year institutions - 6,640,344 (35% of students enrolled at 23% of institutions; average enrollment 5,892 students per institution)

At private 4-year institutions - 4,799,627 (25% of students enrolled at 42% of institutions; average enrollment 2,306 students per institution)

At private 2-year institutions - 331,034 (2% of students enrolled at 22% of institutions; average enrollment 308 students per institution)

TOTAL 19,087,275 (increase of 4.6% over previous year)

Undergraduate 16,350,217 (85.7%)

Graduate/Professional 2,737,275 (14.3%)

283 universities are classified as research institutions, awarding the doctorate degree. This represents only 6% of the total higher education institutions in the US and does not include specialized institutions such as independent medical, engineering or law schools.

Over 19 million students are enrolled in over 4,900

institutions of higher education in the US.

International students are 671,616, or 3.4% of the total.

Women represent 52.4% of students enrolled in higher education in the US, down from 57.2% last year.

Degrees Awarded

Associate 750,160 2% int'l

Bachelor's 1,563,069 3% int'l

Master's 625,023 11% int'l

Doctorate 63,712 28% int'l

Professional 91,309 2% int'l

TOTAL 3,093,277 5% int'l

Percentage of degrees earned by international students is

highest in the graduate divisions, especially the doctoral level.

Doctoral Degrees

Median number of years to earn degree: 7.8

This depends on the field of study: doctorates in the sciences typically take 7 years to complete, whereas doctorates in education take 12 years.

It is interesting to note that only half of those earning doctorate degrees have prior master's degrees in the same field. This illustrates the extreme flexibility of the U.S. higher education system.

Also interesting: 14% of those earning doctoral degrees started out in community colleges. Therefore starting one’s

education in a community college does not block a person’s chances of advancing to the highest academic levels.

Proportion of international students earning doctorates:

Education 9%

Engineering 59%

Humanities 16%

Life Sciences 29%

Physical Sciences 46%

Social Sciences 20%

Other Fields 33%

Total spending on research and development by US colleges and

universities: $54.9 billion in 2009.

Endowments

As at a year ago, 197 US colleges and universities had endowments worth more than $250 million. Most endowments lost more than 20% of their value in 2009, severely affecting their ability to fund international students

and programs.

Endowment per student gives a valuable measure of how well a university can finance its programs. Six US colleges and universities had endowments of more than $1 million per student, and another seventeen had endowments of more than $500,000 per student. Almost all of these institutions

generously fund international students at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Voluntary private donations to higher education, from alumni, foundations, corporations and other organizations, totaled $23.7 billion last year, down 23.5% from the year before.

Fields of Study

Business/management/marketing is by far the most popular field of study, accounting for 14% of associate degrees, 21% of bachelor's degrees, 25% of master's degrees, but only 2.5% of doctoral degrees.

In 2008, the United States graduated 15,800 new medical doctors, 3,700 new dentists, 7,131 new pharmacists, and 32,400 new lawyers.

Ежегодно «Институт Международного Образования» (Institute of International Education) в США в своем издании «Открытые Двери» (Open Doors) приводит данные по количеству иностранных студентов, зачисленных на учебу в США.

Так по данным за 2009/2010 год в США поступило 690,923 иностранных студентов, преимущественно из Индии, Китая и Южной Корее. Это на 2.9% выше, чем в прошлом году. Из России - 4,827 студентов.

Наиболее популярными штатами у иностранных студентов явились штаты Калифорния, Нью-Йорк и Техас.

Среди наиболее востребованных специальностей, как обычно лидировали Бизнес Администрирование и Менеджмент, инженерные специальности и точные науки.

При этом 24.1% из числа иностранных студентов получили финансовую помощь от американских университетов в том или ином размере.