Table 6.2. Enrollment in tribally controlled colleges and number and percentage of students who are American Indians/Alaska Natives: Fall 2006

Status and Trends in the Education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008

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Table 6.2. Enrollment in tribally controlled colleges and number and percentage of students who are American Indians/Alaska Natives: Fall 2006

Tribally controlled college	Location	Type of college	Total	Number American Indian/ Alaska Native	Percent American Indian/ Alaska Native
Total			17,255	13,635	79.0
Bay Mills Community College	Brimlay, MI	2 year	550	325	59.1
Blackfeet Community College	Browning, MT	2 year	467	442	94.6
Cankdeska Cikana Community College	Fort Totten, ND	2 year	233	219	94.0
Chief Dull Knife College¹	Lame Deer, MT	2 year	359	285	79.4
College of the Menominee Nation	Kashena, WI	2 year	513	427	83.2

Diné College	Tsaile, AZ	2 year	1,669	1,635	98.0
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College	Cloquet, MN	2 year	2,181	310	14.2
Fort Belknap College	Harlem, MT	2 year	161	148	91.9
Fort Berthold Community College	New Town, ND	2 year	196	190	96.9
Fort Peck Community College	Poplar, MT	2 year	441	369	83.7

Haskell Indian Nations University	Lawrence, KS	4 year	889	889	100.0
Ilisagvik College	Barrow, AK	2 year	203	138	68.0
Institute of American Indian Arts²	Santa Fe, NM	4 year	192	174	90.6
Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College	Hayward, WI	2 year	574	454	79.1
Leech Lake Tribal College	Cass Lake, MN	2 year	198	172	86.9

Little Big Horn College	Crow Agency, MT	2 year	312	290	92.9
Little Priest Tribal College	Winnebago, NE	2 year	95	82	86.3
Navajo Technical College³	Crownpoint, NM	2 year	392	388	99.0
Nebraska Indian Community College	Macy, NE	2 year	115	105	91.3
Northwest Indian College	Bellingham, WA	2 year	623	506	81.2

Oglala Lakota College	Kyle, SD	4 year	1,485	1,355	91.2
Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College	Mount Pleasant, MI	2 year	125	108	86.4
Salish Kootenai College	Pablo, MT	4 year	1,092	866	79.3
Sinte Gleska University	Rosebud, SD	4 year	969	778	80.3
Sisseton Wahpeton Community College	Sisseton, SD	2 year	279	251	90.0

Sitting Bull College	Fort Yates, ND	4 year	286	254	88.8
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute	Albuquerque, NM	2 year	561	561	100.0
Stone Child College	Box Elder, MT	2 year	397	370	93.2
Tohono O'odham Community College	Sells, AZ	2 year	198	195	98.5
Turtle Mountain Community College	Belcourt, ND	4 year	788	739	93.8

United Tribes Technical College	Bismarck, ND	2 year	606	543	89.6
White Earth Tribal and Community College	Mahnomen, MN	2 year	106	67	63.2

¹ Previously named Dull Knife Memorial College.

² Congressionally chartered under the name Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture.

³ Previously named Crownpoint Institute of Technology.

NOTE: These colleges are, with few exceptions, tribally controlled and located on reservations. They are all members of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium. 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 categories not separately shown.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics, 2007, based on Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2006.

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