How many college campuses are there in the United States? Including
four year colleges and community colleges, but not online or
commercial universities like Devry or University of Phoenix. A
university can have various campuses, for example, University of
Minnesota - Twin Cities is one, University of Minnesota - Duluth is
another. Thank you.

4146.


I got this number by creating a database from the Department of
Education's IPEDS database:


http://nces.ed.gov/ipedspas/index.asp


which includes all colleges in the US, and allows sorting by, e.g.
profit vs non-profit, etc.

I selected all non-profit public and private colleges and
universities, and listed out each campus.  For University of
Minnesota, for instance, the list included:


UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA-TWIN CITIES
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA-CROOKSTON
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA-DULUTH
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA-MORRIS


and like I said, the bottom line was 4146 college campuses.  


Before rating this answer, let me know if there's anything else you need.


Cheers,


pafalafa-ga


search strategy -- Used the bookmark site for the IPEDS database.