There were 133 public normal schools with 1,189 instructors and 32,314 students.

There were 1.164 private schools for both sexes with 7,221 instructors and 126,721 pupils.  The number of private schools for girls was 222 with 2,138 teachers and 20,898 pupils; and that of private schools for boys 269 with 1,685 teachers and 24,202 pupils.

There were 41 private normal schools with 365 instructors and 6,534 students.

The number of schools for training kindergarten teachers was 55.

There were 207 institutions for the superior instruction of girls with 2,581 teachers and 25,318 pupils.

There were 138 theological colleges, with 726 teachers and 6,512 students; 49 law colleges with 239 teachers and 3,667 students; 88 regular medical colleges with 1,746 teachers and 11,172 students; 9 ecclectic medical colleges with 132 teachers and 743 students; 12 homeopathic colleges with 224 teachers and 1,118 students; 6 schools of dentistry etc. with 905 teachers and 5,480 students; 357 universities and colleges for art and sciences with 4,834 teachers and 75,333; 32 colleges endowed with national land grant with 620 teachers and 8,127 students; 30 colleges not endowed with 348 teachers and 7,976 students; 222 commercial colleges with 1,219 teachers and 57,675 students; 33 institutions for the blind with 276 teachers and 2,860 students; 69 institutions for the deaf with 548 teachers and 8,112 students; 22 institutions for the feeble-minded with 122 teachers and 4,321 students; 53 reform schools with 373 teachers and 20,099 students; 521 kindergartens with 1,202 teachers and 31,227 students.

There are also many conservatories and musical institutes in the larger cities.

There are over forty religious denominations in the United States, of which the Roman Catholic, the Baptist, the Methodist, the Lutheran and the Presbyterian are predominent.