Note: Only four-year and two-year public, private nonprofit, and for-profit degree-granting U.S. institutions that were eligible to participate in the federal Title IV financial-aid program in 2017-18 were considered for this analysis. Institutions that did not report a percentage of students registered with disablities or those that reported "Not applicable" were omitted. Undergraduate students with disabilities are those who reported that they had one or more of the following conditions: a specific learning disability, a visual impairment, a hearing difficulty or deafness, a speech impairment, an orthopedic impairment, or a health impairment. Undergraduates who were enrolled in the fall of 2019 and formally registered with their campus’s disabilities-services office or its equivalent were counted. Students are not required to inform their colleges that they have a disability. If they want an adjustment to accommodate the disability, however, they should report it. Percentages of students reporting disabilities may reflect awareness and the level of availability of services at colleges, along with the prevalence of disabilities. Percentages may not sum to 100 because of rounding. Institutions with zero students reported are recorded in the 3 percent or fewer column.
Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data