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Table 312.50. Fall enrollment and degrees conferred in degree-granting tribally controlled postsecondary institutions, by state and institution: Selected years, fall 2000 through fall 2021, and academic years 2019-20 and 2020-21
State and institution Level
and con-
trol1
Total fall enrollment Degrees awarded to
American Indians/Alaska
Natives
2000 2005 2010 2015 2019   2021
Total Total
American
Indian/
Alaska
Native
Percent
American
Indian/
Alaska
Native
  Total Total
American
Indian/
Alaska
Native
Percent
American
Indian/
Alaska
Native
Associate's Bachelor's
2020 2019-20 2020-21 2019-20 2020-21
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Tribally controlled institutions 13,680 11,459 83.8 17,167 21,179 17,089 16,187 15,323 16,488 13,045 79.1 1,139 1,077 378 391
Alaska                                
Ilisagvik College 1 322 174 54.0 278 288 193 233 232 268 164 61.2 6 12 1 0

Arizona
                               
Diné College 1 1,712 1,645 96.1 1,825 2,033 1,490 1,463 1,369 1,315 1,283 97.6 94 89 45 38
Tohono O'odham Community College 2 --- --- --- 270 207 212 431 843 766 735 96.0 24 24

Kansas
                               
Haskell Indian Nations University 1 918 918 100.0 918 958 799 789 731 701 701 100.0 91 66 71 94

Michigan
                               
Bay Mills Community College 2 360 228 63.3 406 607 541 511 438 502 312 62.2 22 22 1 5
Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community
     College
2 --- --- --- --- --- 102 79 79 79 31 39.2 11 2
Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College 2 --- --- --- 123 153 116 138 96 131 100 76.3 12 11

Minnesota
                               
Fond du Lac Tribal and
     Community College
2 999 221 22.1 1,981 2,339 2,227 1,701 1,639 1,525 122 8.0 18 22
Leech Lake Tribal College 2 240 228 95.0 189 235 348 146 133 156 127 81.4 17 28
Red Lake Nation College 2 --- --- --- --- --- --- 130 106 152 147   12 12
White Earth Tribal and Community
     College
4 --- --- --- 61 117 68 121 141 123 93 75.6 16 17

Montana
                               
Aaniiih Nakoda College 1 295 266 90.2 175 214 219 131 143 143 125 87.4 26 24 0 0
Blackfeet Community College 4 299 288 96.3 485 473 442 366 417 297 269 90.6 38 64
Chief Dull Knife College 2 461 365 79.2 554 433 218 162 --- 135 126 93.3 8 7
Fort Peck Community College 2 400 338 84.5 408 452 321 346 328 564 434 77.0 27 36
Little Big Horn College 2 320 303 94.7 259 380 248 261 211 270 260 96.3 26 38
Salish Kootenai College 1 1,042 881 84.5 1,142 1,158 784 690 716 620 465 75.0 34 61 20 35
Stone Child College 1 38 38 100.0 344 332 540 318 311 373 355 95.2 32 21 4 7

Nebraska
                               
Little Priest Tribal College 2 141 121 85.8 109 148 132 133 113 165 118 71.5 9 8
Nebraska Indian Community College 2 170 146 85.9 107 177 158 226 210 409 315 77.0 10 9

New Mexico
                               
Institute of American Indian and
     Alaska Native Culture
     and Arts Development
1 139 139 100.0 113 313 493 605 693 803 380 47.3 8 5 25 38
Navajo Technical University 1 841 841 100.0 333 1,019 1,686 1,849 1,350 1,301 1,242 95.5 57 39 24 15
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic
     Institute
2 304 304 100.0 614 531 402 443 450 357 357 100.0 76 62

North Dakota
                               
Cankdeska Cikana Community College 2 9 8 88.9 198 220 188 160 182 248 219 88.3 14 21
Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College 1 50 47 94.0 241 215 229 203 179 187 143 76.5 12 14 1 5
Sitting Bull College 1 22 20 90.9 287 314 261 285 229 256 226 88.3 38 26 12 10
Turtle Mountain Community College 3 686 608 88.6 615 969 555 531 586 472 457 96.8 66 58 16 7
United Tribes Technical College 3 204 186 91.2 885 600 391 434 326 474 430 90.7 48 50 16 20

Oklahoma
                               
College of the Muscogee Nation 2 --- --- --- --- --- 202 204 252 205 192 93.7 28 40

South Dakota
                               
Oglala Lakota College 1 1,174 1,077 91.7 1,302 1,830 1,366 1,306 1,251 1,451 1,381 95.2 100 83 60 60
Sinte Gleska University 1 900 757 84.1 1,123 2,473 581 549 438 781 703 90.0 43 0 25 5
Sisseton Wahpeton College 2 250 192 76.8 290 261 132 119 125 140 129 92.1 14 17

Washington
                               
Northwest Indian College 1 524 440 84.0 495 626 641 594 555 622 495 79.6 55 55 47 40

Wisconsin
                               
College of the Menominee Nation 3 371 283 76.3 532 615 433 191 173 191 166 86.9 25 8 10 10
Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa College 1 489 397 81.2 505 489 371 339 278 306 243 79.4 22 26 0 2
---Not available.
†Not applicable.
11 = 4-year public; 2 = 2-year public; 3 = 4-year private nonprofit; and 4 = 2-year private nonprofit.
NOTE: This table only includes institutions that were in operation during the 2021-22 academic year. They are all members of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium and, with few exceptions, are tribally controlled and located on reservations. Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Totals include persons of other racial/ethnic groups not separately identified. Students for whom race/ethnicity was unknown were allocated to the reported race/ethnicity categories using the known proportion of students in those other reported race/ethnicity categories. Some data have been revised from previously published figures.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2001 through Spring 2022, Fall Enrollment component; and Fall 2020 and Fall 2021, Completions component. (This table was prepared February 2023.)

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