How many colleges are there in America?

<p>How many colleges are there in America?</p>

<p>Carolyn will know :)</p>

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

<p><a href="http://www.50states.com/college/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.50states.com/college/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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

<p>Depends on how you're counting. </p>

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

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

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

<p>Total number of 4 year degree granting institutions: 2364</p>

<p>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</p>

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

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

<p>If you want to see the breakdown by state, go to the site where I pulled these numbers from: <a href="http://nces.ed.gov//programs/digest/d02/dt244.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://nces.ed.gov//programs/digest/d02/dt244.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>