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Table 249. Fall enrollment and degrees conferred in degree-granting tribally controlled institutions, by institution: Selected years, fall 2000 through fall 2009, and 2007-08 and 2008-09
Institution Type and control1 Total fall enrollment Degrees to American Indians/Alaska Natives
2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Total Total American Indian/ Alaska Native Percent American Indian/ Alaska Native Under-graduate American Indian/ Alaska Native Associate's Bachelor's
2007-08 2008-09 2007-08 2008-09
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Tribally controlled
    institutions2 
13,680 17,776 17,605 17,167 17,255 17,418 17,014 19,686 15,592 79.2 15,491 1,263 1,153 173 160
Alaska                                
Ilisagvik College 2 322 417 214 278 203 439 251 226 142 62.8 142 4 4
                                 
Arizona                                
Diné College 1 1,712 1,878 1,935 1,825 1,669 1,657 1,527 1,935 1,914 98.9 1,914 229 169 0
Tohono O'odham Community College 2 181 169 270 198 154 163 254 224 88.2 224 21 4
                                 
Kansas                                
Haskell Indian Nations University 1 918 918 928 918 889 894 997 1,059 1,059 100.0 1,059 100 69 68 37
                                 
Michigan                                
Bay Mills Community College 2 360 386 401 406 550 427 501 608 336 55.3 336 16 11
Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College 2 66 109 123 125 127 133 134 118 88.1 118 10 6
                                 
Minnesota                                
Fond du Lac Tribal and                                
Community College 2 999 1,735 1,775 1,981 2,181 2,197 2,206 2,305 325 14.1 325 44 33
Leech Lake Tribal College 2 240 162 195 189 198 243 228 233 205 88.0 205 10 26
White Earth Tribal and Community
    College
4 81 67 61 106 99 106 113 96 85.0 96 0 3
                                 
Montana                                
Blackfeet Community College 4 299 546 561 485 467 471 492 533 515 96.6 515 62 57
Chief Dull Knife College 2 461 442 356 554 359 437 443 472 381 80.7 381 17 19
Fort Belknap College 2 295 215 257 175 161 244 168 236 232 98.3 232 15 22
Fort Peck Community College 2 400 419 504 408 441 422 436 427 337 78.9 337 31 31
Little Big Horn College 2 320 394 291 259 312 272 337 415 403 97.1 403 37 23
Salish Kootenai College 3 1,042 1,100 1,130 1,142 1,092 1,040 993 1,204 895 74.3 895 36 34 30 24
Stone Child College 2 38 434 347 344 397 305 236 303 284 93.7 284 34 23
                                 
Nebraska                                
Little Priest Tribal College 4 141 130 154 109 95 120 116 141 133 94.3 133 5 11
Nebraska Indian Community College 2 170 190 190 107 115 89 92 129 123 95.3 123 3 2
                                 
New Mexico                                
Institute of American Indian and                                
Alaska Native Culture 1 139 154 176 113 192 231 249 350 316 90.3 316 7 7 14 21
Navajo Technical College 2 841 300 306 333 392 367 571 751 747 99.5 747 40 36
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic
    Institute
2 304 936 772 614 561 600 470 635 635 100.0 635 38 68
                                 
North Dakota                                
Candeska Cikana Community College 2 9 190 197 198 233 223 201 250 241 96.4 241 19 33
Fort Berthold Community College 2 50 274 285 241 196 201 162 323 298 92.3 298 24 29
Sitting Bull College 1 22 317 289 287 286 290 296 335 295 88.1 295 22 34 6 9
Turtle Mountain Community College 3 686 959 787 615 788 928 951 1,058 972 91.9 972 67 75 4 8
United Tribes Technical College 4 204 466 536 885 606 604 375 476 460 96.6 460 80 69
                                 
South Dakota                                
Oglala Lakota College2  1 1,174 1,441 1,501 1,302 1,485 1,456 1,531 1,804 1,642 91.0 1,584 83 68 37 33
Sinte Gleska University2  3 900 1,055 1,400 1,123 969 971 1,012 936 677 72.3 634 66 50 14 28
Sisseton-Wahpeton College 2 250 287 287 290 279 245 227 237 191 80.6 191 17 18
                                 
Washington                                
Northwest Indian College 1 524 643 519 495 623 584 554 609 509 83.6 509 45 43 0
                                 
Wisconsin                                
College of the Menominee Nation 3 371 499 507 532 513 505 512 634 465 73.3 465 38 29 0
Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa
    Community College
2 489 561 460 505 574 576 478 561 422 75.2 422 43 47
—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 11) includes graduate students and therefore does not equal “Undergraduate American Indian/Alaska Native” enrollment (column 13).
NOTE: This table only includes institutions that were in operation during the 2009-10 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.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2000 through 2009, 2007-08, and 2008-09 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Spring 2001 through Spring 2010, Fall 2008, and Fall 2009. (This table was prepared October 2010.)

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