611310 Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

Official definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in furnishing academic courses and granting degrees at baccalaureate or graduate levels. The requirement for admission is at least a high school diploma or equivalent general academic training. Instruction may be provided in diverse settings, such as the establishment's or client's training facilities, educational institutions, the workplace, or the home, and through diverse means, such as correspondence, television, the Internet, or other electronic and distance-learning methods. The training provided by these establishments may include the use of simulators and simulation methods.

Examples Census gives

• Colleges (except junior colleges)
• Theological seminaries offering baccalaureate or graduate degrees
• Military academies, college-level
• Universities
• Professional schools (e.g., business administration, dental, law, medical)

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Establishments primarily engaged in furnishing academic, or academic and technical, courses and granting associate degrees, certificates, or diplomas below the baccalaureate level are classified in Industry 611210, Junior Colleges.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Activities listed under 611310

The Census index assigns these 26 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Academies, college or university
• Academies, military service (college)
• Bible colleges offering baccalaureate degrees
• Business colleges or schools offering baccalaureate or graduate degrees
• Coast Guard Academy
• Colleges (except junior colleges)
• Colleges, universities, and professional schools
• Conservatories of music (colleges or universities)
• Dental schools
• Hospital management schools offering baccalaureate or graduate degrees
• Hospitality management schools offering baccalaureate or graduate degrees
• Law schools
• Medical schools
• Military academies, college-level
• Military service academies (college)
• Parochial schools, college-level
• Private colleges (except community or junior college)
• Professional schools (e.g., business administration, dental, law, medical)
• Schools, correspondence, college-level
• Schools, medical
• Schools, music (colleges or universities)
• Schools, online, college-level (through a website or mobile application)
• Schools, professional (colleges or universities)
• Seminaries, theological, offering baccalaureate or graduate degrees
• Theological seminaries offering baccalaureate or graduate degrees
• Universities

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 611310

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 611310, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed $34.5 million in average annual receipts. Check your business.

Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 8530), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 85310General secondary educationUK SIC
• 85320Technical and vocational secondary educationUK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.