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Table 218. Enrollment and degrees conferred in tribally controlled institutions, by institution: Fall 1998 through fall 2003, and 2001-02 through 2003-04
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                                       |      |                          Total enrollment                          |                   |
                                       |      |____________________________________________________________________|                   |
                                       |      |      |      |      |      |      |             Fall 2003           |Associate's degrees| Bachelor's degrees
                                       |      |      |      |      |      |      |_________________________________|    conferred to   |    conferred to
                                       |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |American| American Indians/ | American Indians/
                                       |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |Percent |Indian/ |   Alaska Natives  |   Alaska Natives
                                       | Type |      |      |      |      |      |      |American|American| Alaska |___________________|___________________
                                       |  and |      |      |      |      |      |      | Indian/| Indian/|Native, |      |     |      |      |     |
                                       |cont- |  Fall|  Fall|  Fall|  Fall|  Fall|      |  Alaska|  Alaska| under- | 2001-|2002-| 2003-| 2001-|2002-|2003-
Institution                            |rol\1\|  1998|  1999|  2000|  2001|  2002| Total|  Native|  Native|graduate|    02|   03|    04|    02|   03|   04
_______________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|______|________|________|________|______|_____|______|______|_____|______
1                                      |     2|     3|     4|     5|     6|     7|     8|       9|      10|      11|    12|   13|    14|    15|   16|   17
_______________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|______|________|________|________|______|_____|______|______|_____|______
   Tribally controlled institutions ...|     †|13,940|14,400|13,589|14,040|15,837|17,787|  14,220|    79.9|  14,092| 1,179|1,065| 1,309|   139|  150|  160
                                       |______|______|______|______|______|______|______|________|________|________|______|_____|______|______|_____|______
Arizona                                |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
  Dinč College ........................|     2| 1,875| 1,881| 1,712| 1,685| 1,822| 1,878|   1,837|    97.8|   1,837|   314|  137|   226|    † |    †|    †
  Tohono O'odham Community College ....|     4|  --- |  --- |  --- |  --- |  --- |   181|     172|    95.0|     172|  --- | --- |     5|  --- | --- |    †
                                       |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
California                             |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
  D-Q University ......................|     4|   225|   257|   172|   193|   251|   219|      42|    19.2|      42|    13|    6|     4|    † |    †|    †
                                       |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
Kansas                                 |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
  Haskell Indian Nations University ...|     1|   779|   885|   918|   967|   887|   918|     918|   100.0|     918|    63|  108|   122|    24|   44|   74
                                       |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
Michigan                               |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
  Bay Mills Community College .........|     2|   369|   321|   360|   368|   430|   386|     230|    59.6|     230|    18|   15|    13|    † |    †|    †
  Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College .....|     2|  --- |  --- |  --- |  --- |    41|    66|      57|    86.4|      57|     2|    0|     6|    † |    †|    †
                                       |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
Minnesota                              |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
  Fond du Lac Tribal and               |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
     Community College ................|     2|   701|   935|   999| 1,023| 1,315| 1,735|     359|    20.7|     359|    22|   21|    22|    † |    †|    †
  Leech Lake Tribal College ...........|     2|   228|   222|   240|   174|   244|   162|     147|    90.7|     147|     8|    9|    15|    † |    †|    †
  White Earth Tribal and Community     |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
     College ..........................|     4|  --- |    99|  --- |    79|    99|    81|      51|    63.0|      51|     3|    7|     2|    † |    †|    †
                                       |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
Montana                                |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
  Blackfeet Community College .........|     4|   396|   291|   299|   341|   418|   546|     526|    96.3|     526|    77|   62|    68|    † |    †|    †
  Chief Dull Knife College ............|     4|   448|   448|   461|   442|   268|   442|     339|    76.7|     339|    23|   20|    24|    † |    †|    †
  Fort Belknap College ................|     2|   163|   266|   295|   170|   158|   215|     189|    87.9|     189|    27|   26|    27|    † |    †|    †
  Fort Peck Community College .........|     2|   316|   370|   400|   419|   443|   419|     325|    77.6|     325|    20|   28|    33|    † |    †|    †
  Little Big Horn College .............|     2|   324|   207|   320|   203|   275|   394|     392|    99.5|     392|     4|   12|    23|    † |    †|    †
  Salish Kootenai College .............|     3| 1,016| 1,075| 1,042|   976| 1,109| 1,100|     845|    76.8|     845|    48|   43|    49|    20|   27|   11
  Stone Child College .................|     2|   255|   188|    38|   242|    83|   434|     318|    73.3|     318|    23|    8|    23|    † |    †|    †
                                       |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
Nebraska                               |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
  Little Priest Tribal College ........|     4|  --- |   147|   141|    88|   146|   130|     110|    84.6|     110|     7|    5|     5|    † |    †|    †
  Nebraska Indian Community College ...|     4|   186|   186|   170|   191|   118|   190|     163|    85.8|     163|     4|    7|    15|    † |    †|    †
                                       |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
New Mexico                             |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
  Crownpoint Institute of Technology ..|     4|   227|   270|   841|   299|   283|   300|     297|    99.0|     297|    33|   25|    22|    † |    †|    †
  Institute of American Indian and     |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
     Alaska Native Culture ............|     1|   109|   133|   139|    44|   155|   154|     140|    90.9|     140|    17|   28|    21|     2|    7|    9
  Southwestern Indian Polytechnic      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
     Institute ........................|     2|   653|   643|   304|   723|   777|   936|     936|   100.0|     936|    46|   49|    65|    † |    †|    †
                                       |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
North Dakota                           |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
  Candeska Cikana Community College ...|     2|   124|   134|     9|   169|   160|   190|     179|    94.2|     179|    16|   11|    19|    † |    †|    †
  Fort Berthold Community College .....|     2|   291|   285|    50|    50|   249|   274|     252|    92.0|     252|    26|   29|    36|    † |    †|    †
  Sitting Bull College ................|     2|   231|   233|    22|   194|   214|   317|     274|    86.4|     274|    32|   22|    34|    † |    †|    †
  Turtle Mountain Community College ...|     1|   624|   665|   686|   684|   897|   959|     899|    93.7|     899|    45|   60|    78|    16|    2|    7
  United Tribes Technical College .....|     4|   311|   299|   204|   302|   463|   466|     416|    89.3|     416|    63|   58|    80|    † |    †|    †
                                       |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
South Dakota                           |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
  Oglala Lakota College ...............|     1| 1,137| 1,198| 1,174| 1,270| 1,279| 1,441|   1,281|    88.9|   1,179|    62|   72|    73|    34|   38|   34
  Si Tanka Huron University, Eagle     |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
     Butte Campus .....................|     1|   215|   215|    59|    51|   434|   209|     198|    94.7|     198|     7|   18|    15|    17|   17|   12
  Sinte Gleska University .............|     1| 1,041|   910|   900|   895|   787| 1,055|     776|    73.6|     750|    26|   44|    51|    26|   15|   13
  Sisseton-Wahpeton College ...........|     2|   201|   219|   250|   275|   285|   287|     241|    84.0|     241|    36|   23|    18|    † |    †|    †
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Washington                             |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
  Northwest Indian College ............|     2|   695|   548|   524|   600|   667|   643|     500|    77.8|     500|    21|   41|    27|    † |    †|    †
                                       |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
Wisconsin                              |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
  College of the Menominee Nation .....|     4|   249|   385|   371|   407|   530|   499|     393|    78.8|     393|    28|   28|    41|    † |    †|    †
  Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa           |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |        |        |        |      |     |      |      |     |
     Community College ................|     2|   551|   485|   489|   516|   550|   561|     418|    74.5|     418|    45|   43|    47|    † |    †|    †
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---Not available.
†Not applicable.
\1\1=public, 4-year; 2=public, 2-year; 3=private not-for-profit, 4-year; and 4=private not-for-profit, 2-year.
NOTE: These colleges are, with few exceptions, tribally controlled and located on reservations. They are all members of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 1998 through 2003 and 2001-02 through 2003-04 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, "Fall Enrollment Survey" (IPEDS-EF:98-99); Fall 2002 through Fall 2004; and Spring 2001 through Spring 2004. (This table was prepared August 2005.)

National Center for Education Statistics - http://nces.ed.gov
U.S. Department of Education