Statistics of higher education have been collected and published by the Office of Education since 1870. These reports, originally on an annual basis, have been published biennially beginning with 1918. In the present report, for the first time, statistics of all institutions of higher education, including junior colleges, are here summarized in one publication. This includes material previously carried in three separate chapters: (1) On universities, colleges, and professional schools; (2) on teachers colleges and normal schools; and (3) on land-grant colleges and universities. A unified statistical view of the higher educational situation in the United States is thus afforded. A total of 1,4850 institutions reported, including universities, colleges, and professional schools of various types including teachers colleges and normal schools, and junior colleges offering at least 2 years of work above the secondary level and enrolling at least 50 college students. The figures presented were obtained by means of printed questionnaire, copies of which were sent to every institution of college grade in continental United States of whose existence the Office of Education had information. Approximately 20 percent of the institutions were visited by representatives of the Office, who assisted in making the returns. Questionnaires were also sent to and replies received from the institutions of college grade in the outlying parts of the United States, but these institutions are not included in the general summaries. (Contains 2 footnotes, and 40 tables.) [This bulletin was prepared with the assistance of Margaret J. S. Carr, Nathalie Leveque, Blanche K. Choate, and Maude Farr. Best copy available has been provided.]