Data on Postsecondary Tuition, Fees and Degrees

Between 2018-19 and 2020-21, the average tuition and required fees at 4-year public institutions increased less than 1 percent for in-state and decreased approximately 1 percent for out-of-state students (after adjusting for inflation). During that same time period, tuition and required fees increased approximately 2 percent at 4-year nonprofit institutions and decreased about 2 percent at for-profit institutions. The National Center for Education Statistics released a new set of data and web tables today (July 27) that includes fully edited and imputed data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) fall 2020 collection. This collection included three survey components: Institutional Characteristics for the 2020-21 academic year, Completions covering the period July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020, and data on 12-Month Enrollment for the 2019-20 academic year. Other findings include: In 2019–20 there were 6,086 Title IV institutions in the United States and other U.S. jurisdictions—2,731 were classified as 4-year institutions, 1,632 were 2-year institutions, and the remaining 1,723 were less-than-2-year institutions; Of the roughly 3.5 million students receiving degrees or certificates at 4-year Title IV degree-granting institutions, about 57 percent received a bachelor’s degree. This percentage varied by control of institution, with approximately 62 percent of the 2.2 million students at public institutions receiving a bachelor’s degree, roughly 52 percent of the 1.1 million students at private nonprofit institutions receiving a bachelor’s degree, and approximately 40 percent of the 240,000 students at private for-profit institutions receiving a bachelor’s degree; In fall 2020, the 12-month unduplicated headcount enrollment of students enrolled exclusively in distance education courses varied by institutional control. Of the approximately 4.3 million undergraduate students enrolled exclusively in distance education, around 2.8 million were enrolled at public institutions, 760,000 at private nonprofit institutions, and 746,000 at private for-profit institutions. To view these tables and the corresponding data release memo, please visit https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data/survey-components