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Find a school by name, sector, or size across 6,243 College Scorecard profiles.

6,243 colleges

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What this college directory contains

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Private For-Profit institutions lead by school count (2,309); public colleges report an average 5,613 undergraduates.

According to the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard.

Counts describe institutions in the current College Scorecard snapshot; missing enrollment is excluded from sector averages, never treated as zero.

Colleges by ownership sector

Institution count in the current directory

institutions

What this shows Institution count and student reach are different: public colleges are not the largest sector by number of schools, but they report a much larger average undergraduate enrollment.

Source U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard As of July 2026 retrieval

States with the most listed colleges

Primary-campus location, top eight

institutions

What this shows Large states dominate the directory by institution count. Use the state pages for a local comparison that pairs school availability with cost and earnings.

Source U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard As of July 2026 retrieval

Open a state directory: California , New York , Texas , Florida , Pennsylvania , Ohio , Illinois , Michigan .

College Enrollment
Tabor College 494
Tacoma Community College 4,668
Taft College 3,556
Taft University System 0
Talladega College 701
Tallahassee State College 11,053
Talmudic College of Florida 27
Talmudical Academy-New Jersey 72
Talmudical Institute of Upstate New York 13
Talmudical Seminary of Bobov 602
Talmudical Seminary Oholei Torah 400
Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia 112
Tarleton State University 12,673
Tarrant County College District 42,300
Taylor Andrews Academy of Hair Design-Hair Lab Detroit Barber School 57
Taylor Andrews Academy of Hair Design-Provo 147
Taylor Andrews Academy of Hair Design-West Jordan 144
Taylor Andrews Academy-St George 127
Taylor Business Institute 98
Taylor College 308
Taylor Institute of Cosmetology II 44
Taylor University 2,025
TC Beauty 100
TCAT Athens 205
Teachers College at Columbia University -
Teachers College of San Joaquin 642
Technical College of the Lowcountry 1,679
Technical College of the Rockies 165
Technology Learning Center 31
Telshe Yeshiva-Chicago 78
Temple College 3,178
Temple University 20,970
Tenaj Salon Institute 55
Tennessee College of Applied Technology Crump 388
Tennessee College of Applied Technology Nashville 759
Tennessee College of Applied Technology Northwest 717
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Dickson 714
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Elizabethton 546
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Harriman 246
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Hartsville 247
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Henry/Carroll 180
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Hohenwald 346
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Jacksboro 231
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Jacksboro -
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Jackson 563
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Knoxville 887
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Livingston 340
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-McMinnville 302
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Memphis 1,391
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Morristown 642

How to read the directory

Each row uses the institution's registered College Scorecard name, primary-campus state, reported undergraduate enrollment, and ownership sector. Sort by enrollment to compare scale, or use the alpha index when you know a school's name. A missing value means the source did not report a usable figure; it is not zero.

School profiles add average net price, admissions, completion, debt, program, and former-student earnings measures where the federal source reports them. Institution earnings cover federally aided entry cohorts who were working and not enrolled 6 or 10 years after starting school; they are not graduate-only salaries and do not cover every former student.

For a decision rather than a name lookup, use Compare for a side-by-side result, Near You for commuting-distance options, or Programs to compare one field of study across schools.

Methodology

The college directory is sourced from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard and the IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) institutional characteristics file. Every institution that participates in Title IV federal student aid is included. Enrollment figures come from IPEDS Fall enrollment surveys; ownership sector (public, private nonprofit, private for-profit) follows the Carnegie classification as reported by each institution. Sorting and alphabetical indexing are computed at build time from the full directory snapshot. See our full data methodology for suppression rules, data vintage, and processing details.

Download the College Scorecard state summary cited on this page: plaincollege-state-summary.csv (U.S. Department of Education · CC BY-SA 4.0).