Digest of Education Statistics: 2008
Digest of Education Statistics: 2008

NCES 2009-020
March 2009

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Table 239. Enrollment and degrees conferred in degree-granting tribally controlled institutions, by institution: Fall 2000 through fall 2006, and 2005–06 and 2006
Institution Type and control1  Total enrollment Degrees to American Indians/Alaska Natives
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Total Total American Indian/ Alaska Native Percent American Indian/ Alaska Native Under-graduate American Indian/ Alaska Native Associate's Bachelor's
2005–06 2006–07 2005–06 2006–07
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Tribally controlled institutions2  †  13,680 14,075 15,468 17,776 17,605 17,167 17,255 13,635 79.0 13,526 1,322 1,245 186 144
Alaska                              
Ilisagvik College 2 322 279 316 417 214 278 203 138 68.0 138 3 5 † †
                               
Arizona                              
Diné College 2 1,712 1,685 1,822 1,878 1,935 1,825 1,669 1,635 98.0 1635 231 215 † †
Tohono O'odham Community College 2 — — — 181 169 270 198 195 98.5 195 5 20 † †
                               
Kansas                              
Haskell Indian Nations University 1 918 967 887 918 928 918 889 889 100.0 889 99 106 70 50
                               
Michigan                              
Bay Mills Community College 2 360 368 430 386 401 406 550 325 59.1 325 6 8 † †
Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College 2 — — 41 66 109 123 125 108 86.4 108 6 10 † †
                               
Minnesota                              
Fond du Lac Tribal and College 2 999 1,023 1,315 1,735 1,775 1,981 2,181 310 14.2 310 25 39 † †
Leech Lake Tribal College 2 240 174 244 162 195 189 198 172 86.9 172 12 15 † †
White Earth Tribal and Community College 4 — 79 99 81 67 61 106 67 63.2 67 0 3 † †
                               
Montana                              
Blackfeet Community College 4 299 341 418 546 561 485 467 442 94.6 442 65 55 † †
Chief Dull Knife College 2 461 442 268 442 356 554 359 285 79.4 285 22 18 † †
Fort Belknap College 2 295 170 158 215 257 175 161 148 91.9 148 20 13 † †
Fort Peck Community College 2 400 419 443 419 504 408 441 369 83.7 369 20 14 † †
Little Big Horn College 2 320 203 275 394 291 259 312 290 92.9 290 43 36 † †
Salish Kootenai College 3 1,042 976 1,109 1,100 1,130 1,142 1,092 866 79.3 866 79 60 25 17
Stone Child College 2 38 242 83 434 347 344 397 370 93.2 370 21 22 † †
                               
Nebraska                              
Little Priest Tribal College 4 141 88 146 130 154 109 95 82 86.3 82 13 8 † †
Nebraska Indian Community College 2 170 191 118 190 190 107 115 105 91.3 105 12 3 † †
                               
New Mexico                              
Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture 1 139 44 155 154 176 113 192 174 90.6 174 8 13 28 22
Navajo Technical College 2 841 299 283 300 306 333 392 388 99.0 388 41 32 † †
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute 2 304 723 777 936 772 614 561 561 100.0 561 65 56 † †
                               
North Dakota                              
Candeska Cikana Community College 2 9 169 160 190 197 198 233 219 94.0 219 20 29 † †
Fort Berthold Community College 2 50 50 249 274 285 241 196 190 96.9 190 37 14 † †
Sitting Bull College 1 22 194 214 317 289 287 286 254 88.8 254 32 33 † 3
Turtle Mountain Community College 3 686 684 897 959 787 615 788 739 93.8 739 65 44 11 0
United Tribes Technical College 4 204 302 463 466 536 885 606 543 89.6 543 83 98 † †
                               
South Dakota                              
Oglala Lakota College2  1 1,174 1,270 1,279 1,441 1,501 1,302 1,485 1,355 91.2 1295 78 69 39 39
Sinte Gleska University2  3 900 895 787 1,055 1,400 1,123 969 778 80.3 729 73 54 13 13
Sisseton-Wahpeton College 2 250 275 285 287 287 290 279 251 90.0 251 25 22 † †
                               
Washington                              
Northwest Indian College 1 524 600 667 643 519 495 623 506 81.2 506 27 37 † 0
                               
Wisconsin                              
College of the Menominee Nation 4 371 407 530 499 507 532 513 427 83.2 427 33 37 † †
Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College 2 489 516 550 561 460 505 574 454 79.1 454 53 57 † †
— 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.
2 "Total American Indian/Alaska Native" enrollment (column 10) includes graduate students and therefore does not equal "Undergraduate American Indian/Alaska Native" enrollment (column 12).
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 groups not separately identified.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2000 through 2006, 2005–06, and 2006–07 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2001 through Spring 2007, Fall 2006, and Fall 2007. (This table was pre-pared July 2008.)

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