Browse Colleges & Universities
Find a school by name, sector, or size across 6,243 College Scorecard profiles.
What this college directory contains
The directory in one line
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
- Private For-Profit
Private For-Profit
2,309 institutions
- Public
Public
2,044 institutions
- Private Nonprofit
Private Nonprofit
1,890 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.
States with the most listed colleges
Primary-campus location, top eight
- California
California
657 institutions
- New York
New York
417 institutions
- Texas
Texas
410 institutions
- Florida
Florida
374 institutions
- Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
317 institutions
- Ohio
Ohio
279 institutions
- Illinois 234
Illinois
234 institutions
- Michigan 169
Michigan
169 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.
Open a state directory: California , New York , Texas , Florida , Pennsylvania , Ohio , Illinois , Michigan .
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).