US college FTE enrollment by institution, yearly (IPEDS)

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Annual full-time-equivalent enrollment panel for US postsecondary institutions from IPEDS via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal (keyless API, ODC-By 1.0): undergraduate, graduate and professional-practice FTE, total FTE, YoY and 5-year CAGR, state share and rank, 3-year decline and rapid-decline flags, 2011-2024, with institution control/sector/HBCU/tribal flags. The enrollment-cliff layer for education, demographics and labor-pipeline models; joins on unitid with the catalog's other IPEDS-based panels. Raw data: National Center for Education Statistics (IPEDS) via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal.

Source: Urban IPEDS college enrollment intelligence
Rows: 92,232
Columns: 24
Source cadence: Yearly
Last refreshed: Oct 3, 2026
Theme: education

Column	Type	Description
year	integer	Fall reference year of the IPEDS enrollment count (2011-2024).
country	string	United States (all rows).
country_code	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (USA).
unitid	integer	IPEDS institution identifier (UNITID); stable across years, joins with other IPEDS-based panels.
inst_name	string	Institution name from the IPEDS directory (that year's record).
state_abbr	string	USPS state abbreviation of the institution.
inst_control	integer	IPEDS control of institution: 1 = public, 2 = private nonprofit, 3 = private for-profit.
inst_control_label	string	Human label for inst_control.
sector	integer	IPEDS sector: 1-3 = 4-year public/private-nonprofit/private-for-profit, 4-6 = 2-year equivalents, 7-9 = less-than-2-year, 0 = system/administrative office (portal code, e.g. Northeast Technology Center).
sector_label	string	Human label for sector.
hbcu	integer	1 when the institution is a Historically Black College or University.
tribal_college	integer	1 when the institution is a tribal college.
degree_granting	integer	1 when the institution is degree-granting.
ug_fte	float	Undergraduate full-time-equivalent enrollment (IPEDS level_of_study 1); institution-reported FTE when available, else the portal's credit/contact-hour estimate. (unit: FTE students)
grad_fte	float	Graduate full-time-equivalent enrollment (IPEDS level_of_study 2); same sourcing as ug_fte. (unit: FTE students)
prof_fte	float	Doctor's professional-practice FTE (IPEDS level_of_study 3: law, medicine and similar programs); null for institutions without such programs. (unit: FTE students)
total_fte	float	Total FTE enrollment = ug_fte + grad_fte + prof_fte (null levels treated as 0; null only when all three are null). (unit: FTE students)
fte_yoy_pct	float	Year-on-year percent change of total_fte; null for each institution's first year and across upstream data gaps (only consecutive calendar years compare). (unit: %)
fte_cagr_5y_pct	float	5-year compound annual growth rate of total_fte against the observation exactly 5 calendar years back; null when that year is missing (warm-up, never back-filled). (unit: %/yr)
share_of_state_fte	float	Institution total_fte divided by its state's total FTE that year.
state_rank	integer	Per-year rank on total_fte within the state (1 = largest).
decline_3y_flag	integer	1 when total_fte fell three consecutive years (the enrollment-cliff flag).
rapid_decline_flag	integer	1 when the latest YoY FTE change is <= -10%.
row_hash	string	Deterministic 12-hex row identity hash over source, unitid, year and the three FTE levels.

First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.

year	country	country_code	unitid	inst_name	state_abbr	inst_control	inst_control_label	sector	sector_label	degree_granting	ug_fte	grad_fte	prof_fte	total_fte	fte_yoy_pct	fte_cagr_5y_pct	share_of_state_fte	state_rank	row_hash
2,011	United States	USA	372,213	University of Phoenix-Online Campus	AZ	3	private for-profit	3	private for-profit 4-year	1	178,517	37,311	—	215,828	—	—	0.349	1	8780b491507c
2,011	United States	USA	452,115	Virginia College-Montgomery	AL	3	private for-profit	6	private for-profit 2-year	1	97,270	—	—	97,270	—	—	0.26	1	8691897e3f2c
2,011	United States	USA	154,022	Ashford University	IA	3	private for-profit	3	private for-profit 4-year	1	71,569	9,505	—	81,074	—	—	0.223	1	e347f7efd72b
2,011	United States	USA	260,901	Kaplan University-Davenport Campus	IA	3	private for-profit	3	private for-profit 4-year	1	65,571	10,571	282	76,424	—	—	0.21	2	0ee83e6cf38f
2,011	United States	USA	150,987	Ivy Tech Community College-Central Indiana	IN	1	public	4	public 2-year	1	74,245	—	—	74,245	—	—	0.19	1	f088d751338d
2,011	United States	USA	204,796	Ohio State University-Main Campus	OH	1	public	1	public 4-year	1	45,479	10,545	13,224	69,248	—	—	0.104	1	b8dccb214cf1
2,011	United States	USA	104,151	Arizona State University	AZ	1	public	1	public 4-year	1	55,016	10,479	729	66,224	—	—	0.107	2	c62a11e6b2b2
2,011	United States	USA	125,231	Walden University	MN	3	private for-profit	3	private for-profit 4-year	1	12,351	48,126	—	60,477	—	—	0.151	1	a8afb9bcb340
2,011	United States	USA	232,557	Liberty University	VA	2	private nonprofit	2	private nonprofit 4-year	1	36,106	20,595	290	56,991	—	—	0.114	1	859faf8590a5
2,011	United States	USA	135,717	Miami Dade College	FL	1	public	1	public 4-year	1	56,758	—	—	56,758	—	—	0.051	1	bf4f035ea48a

Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).

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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/urban_ipeds_enrollment_intel/us_college_fte_enrollment_annual" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

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import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/urban_ipeds_enrollment_intel/us_college_fte_enrollment_annual").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/urban_ipeds_enrollment_intel/us_college_fte_enrollment_annual

Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.

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Urban IPEDS college enrollment intelligence. (2026). US college FTE enrollment by institution, yearly (IPEDS) [Data set, snapshot 20261003T070807Z-7d9a0671ecdb, sha256 7d9a0671ecdb]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-10-04, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/urban_ipeds_enrollment_intel/us_college_fte_enrollment_annual?snapshot=20261003T070807Z-7d9a0671ecdb

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@misc{dz_urban_ipeds_enrollment_intel_us_college__7d9a0671,
  title        = {{US college FTE enrollment by institution, yearly (IPEDS)}},
  author       = {{Urban IPEDS college enrollment intelligence}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/urban_ipeds_enrollment_intel/us_college_fte_enrollment_annual?snapshot=20261003T070807Z-7d9a0671ecdb}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20261003T070807Z-7d9a0671ecdb, sha256 7d9a0671ecdb9f20ce6c4b5490be86044fb3af1d2c81a104cd1093504e6dd66c; accessed 2026-10-04}
}

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