Total Student Population Comparison
The total student population of Colleges in Minnesota is 413,326 with 268,455 female students and 144,871 male students. This enrollment statistics is based on the latest data from IPEDS, U.S. Department of Education for academic year 2024-2025. The following table compares the student population for both undergraduate and graduate schools between Colleges in Minnesota.
Among the Colleges in Minnesota, University of -Twin Cities has the most enrolled students of 56,666, while Avalon School of Cosmetology has the least number of students of 15 for both in graduate and undergraduate programs.
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Undergraduate Student Population
The total undergraduate population of Colleges in Minnesota is 301,464 with 183,696 female students and 117,768 male students. The following table compares 2024-2025 undergraduate enrollment between Colleges in Minnesota.
Among the Colleges in Minnesota, University of -Twin Cities has the most enrolled undergraduate students of 41,303, while Avalon School of Cosmetology has the least number of undergraduate students of 15.
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Graduate Student Population
The total graduate population of Colleges in Minnesota is 111,862 with 84,759 female students and 27,103 male students. The following table compares 2023-2024 graduate enrollment between Colleges in Minnesota.
Among the Colleges in Minnesota, Walden University has the most enrolled graduate students of 40,297, while Gustavus Adolphus College has the least number of graduate students of 1.
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Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment
The following table compares 2023-2024 distance learning enrollment for both undergraduate and graduate programs between Colleges in Minnesota. In undergraduate programs, out of total 295,198 students, 87,083 students (29.50%) have taken courses only through distance learning and 80,634 students (27.32%) have learned from at least one online course. For graduate schools, out of total 110,620 students, 83,019 students (75.05%) have taken courses only through distance learning and 7,773 students (7.03%) have learned from at least one online course.
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| Name | Undergraduate | Graduate | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Online Exclusively | Some Online Classes | Total | Online Exclusively | Some Online Classes | ||
| Walden University | 9,144 | 9,144 (100.00%) |
- | 40,297 | 40,297 (100.00%) |
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| Academy College | 56 | 1 (1.79%) |
49 (87.50%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Alexandria Technical & Community College | 3,281 | 1,257 (38.31%) |
636 (19.38%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Lynnes Welding Training - Ramsey | Lynnes Welding Training - Ramsey does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Anoka Technical College | 1,970 | 840 (42.64%) |
390 (19.80%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Anoka-Ramsey Community College | 8,486 | 2,465 (29.05%) |
2,347 (27.66%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Augsburg University | 2,527 | 52 (2.06%) |
641 (25.37%) | 722 | 27 (3.74%) |
14 (1.94%) | |
| Riverland Community College | 3,959 | 636 (16.06%) |
996 (25.16%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Northwest Technical College | 978 | 487 (49.80%) |
280 (28.63%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Bemidji State University | 3,751 | 1,264 (33.70%) |
1,376 (36.68%) | 321 | 183 (57.01%) |
65 (20.25%) | |
| Bethany Lutheran College | 856 | 115 (13.43%) |
234 (27.34%) | 43 | 43 (100.00%) |
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| Bethel University | 2,755 | 433 (15.72%) |
865 (31.40%) | 848 | 308 (36.32%) |
272 (32.08%) | |
| Central Lakes College-Brainerd | 4,981 | 505 (10.14%) |
1,291 (25.92%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Carleton College | Carleton College does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Concordia College at Moorhead | 1,864 | 2 (0.11%) |
299 (16.04%) | 71 | 59 (83.10%) |
4 (5.63%) | |
| Concordia University-Saint Paul | 3,424 | 907 (26.49%) |
1,734 (50.64%) | 2,579 | 1,854 (71.89%) |
621 (24.08%) | |
| Dakota County Technical College | 2,894 | 621 (21.46%) |
766 (26.47%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Martin Luther College | 770 | 161 (20.91%) |
23 (2.99%) | 108 | 108 (100.00%) |
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| Lake Superior College | 4,074 | 1,115 (27.37%) |
1,046 (25.68%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Minnesota State Community and Technical College | 5,645 | 1,568 (27.78%) |
1,685 (29.85%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Minnesota West Community and Technical College | 3,695 | 1,130 (30.58%) |
798 (21.60%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Gustavus Adolphus College | 1,905 | - | 79 (4.15%) | 1 | - | - | |
| Hamline University | 1,806 | 71 (3.93%) |
416 (23.03%) | 759 | 358 (47.17%) |
159 (20.95%) | |
| Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School | No Undergraduate Level Courses Offered | 192 | 156 (81.25%) |
18 (9.38%) | |||
| Hennepin Technical College | 4,572 | 1,195 (26.14%) |
902 (19.73%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Minnesota North College | 3,174 | 497 (15.66%) |
1,059 (33.36%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute Minneapolis | Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute Minneapolis does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Inver Hills Community College | 3,804 | 1,479 (38.88%) |
882 (23.19%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Luther Seminary | No Undergraduate Level Courses Offered | 371 | 67 (18.06%) |
139 (37.47%) | |||
| Macalester College | Macalester College does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| South Central College | 2,731 | 991 (36.29%) |
787 (28.82%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Minnesota State University-Mankato | 13,433 | 1,801 (13.41%) |
6,645 (49.47%) | 1,838 | 947 (51.52%) |
347 (18.88%) | |
| Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science | Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Metropolitan State University | 5,904 | 2,846 (48.20%) |
2,059 (34.87%) | 756 | 273 (36.11%) |
265 (35.05%) | |
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 41,303 | 897 (2.17%) |
16,068 (38.90%) | 15,363 | 1,161 (7.56%) |
2,500 (16.27%) | |
| University of Minnesota-Crookston | 2,612 | 1,143 (43.76%) |
339 (12.98%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Minneapolis College of Art and Design | 720 | - | 166 (23.06%) | 111 | 84 (75.68%) |
1 (0.90%) | |
| Minneapolis Community and Technical College | 6,733 | 2,292 (34.04%) |
2,050 (30.45%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Herzing University-Minneapolis | 740 | 231 (31.22%) |
461 (62.30%) | 8 | 8 (100.00%) |
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| Nova Academy of Cosmetology Woodbury | Nova Academy of Cosmetology Woodbury does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| University of Minnesota-Duluth | 8,426 | 148 (1.76%) |
3,303 (39.20%) | 827 | 102 (12.33%) |
70 (8.46%) | |
| University of Minnesota-Morris | 981 | 28 (2.85%) |
188 (19.16%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Model College of Hair Design | Model College of Hair Design does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Minnesota State University Moorhead | 3,375 | 537 (15.91%) |
2,098 (62.16%) | 1,011 | 635 (62.81%) |
139 (13.75%) | |
| North Hennepin Community College | 5,563 | 1,899 (34.14%) |
1,777 (31.94%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Normandale Community College | 11,026 | 4,334 (39.31%) |
3,455 (31.34%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| North Central University | 759 | 126 (16.60%) |
346 (45.59%) | 93 | 73 (78.49%) |
11 (11.83%) | |
| Northland Community and Technical College | 2,631 | 1,013 (38.50%) |
621 (23.60%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| University of Northwestern-St Paul | 3,163 | 1,286 (40.66%) |
515 (16.28%) | 71 | 71 (100.00%) |
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| Northwestern Health Sciences University | 439 | 123 (28.02%) |
277 (63.10%) | 662 | 87 (13.14%) |
450 (67.98%) | |
| Oak Hills Christian College | 95 | 26 (27.37%) |
25 (26.32%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Pine Technical & Community College | 1,794 | 232 (12.93%) |
286 (15.94%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Rochester Community and Technical College | 5,205 | 1,785 (34.29%) |
1,699 (32.64%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| College of Saint Benedict | 1,391 | - | 5 (0.36%) | 38 | 38 (100.00%) |
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| St Cloud Technical and Community College | 4,030 | 1,529 (37.94%) |
1,092 (27.10%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Saint Cloud State University | 8,738 | 1,088 (12.45%) |
3,412 (39.05%) | 1,994 | 1,038 (52.06%) |
377 (18.91%) | |
| Saint Johns University | 1,413 | - | 12 (0.85%) | 159 | 48 (30.19%) |
23 (14.47%) | |
| Saint Mary's University of Minnesota | 1,932 | 239 (12.37%) |
428 (22.15%) | 2,573 | 1,942 (75.48%) |
414 (16.09%) | |
| St Olaf College | 3,124 | - | 23 (0.74%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Crown College | 1,523 | 891 (58.50%) |
109 (7.16%) | 323 | 323 (100.00%) |
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| The College of Saint Scholastica | 1,810 | 232 (12.82%) |
280 (15.47%) | 1,120 | 495 (44.20%) |
55 (4.91%) | |
| University of St Thomas | 6,270 | 11 (0.18%) |
1,878 (29.95%) | 3,140 | 624 (19.87%) |
660 (21.02%) | |
| Empire Beauty School-Bloomington | Empire Beauty School-Bloomington does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| St Catherine University | 2,498 | 693 (27.74%) |
1,041 (41.67%) | 1,153 | 437 (37.90%) |
271 (23.50%) | |
| Rasmussen University-Minnesota | 8,633 | 7,622 (88.29%) |
1,011 (11.71%) | 783 | 783 (100.00%) |
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| Saint Paul College | 5,198 | 1,102 (21.20%) |
1,473 (28.34%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Southwest Minnesota State University | 7,735 | 1,050 (13.57%) |
693 (8.96%) | 479 | 243 (50.73%) |
37 (7.72%) | |
| Summit Academy Opportunities Industrialization Center | 360 | 4 (1.11%) |
- | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities | No Undergraduate Level Courses Offered | 226 | 156 (69.03%) |
70 (30.97%) | |||
| Dunwoody College of Technology | 1,537 | 232 (15.09%) |
610 (39.69%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Ridgewater College | 3,148 | 1,588 (50.44%) |
787 (25.00%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Minnesota State College Southeast | 2,331 | 868 (37.24%) |
590 (25.31%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Winona State University | 5,317 | 469 (8.82%) |
2,095 (39.40%) | 728 | 453 (62.23%) |
158 (21.70%) | |
| Mitchell Hamline School of Law | No Undergraduate Level Courses Offered | 1,163 | 73 (6.28%) |
437 (37.58%) | |||
| Century College | 8,726 | 2,832 (32.45%) |
2,339 (26.80%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Adler Graduate School | No Undergraduate Level Courses Offered | 275 | 51 (18.55%) |
196 (71.27%) | |||
| Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College | 1,789 | 157 (8.78%) |
379 (21.19%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Capella University | 18,366 | 18,366 (100.00%) |
- | 29,395 | 29,395 (100.00%) |
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| Leech Lake Tribal College | 209 | 8 (3.83%) |
167 (79.90%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Hastings Beauty School | Hastings Beauty School does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| White Earth Tribal and Community College | 119 | - | 74 (62.18%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| PCI Academy-Plymouth | PCI Academy-Plymouth does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| American Academy of Health and Wellness | American Academy of Health and Wellness does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Empire Beauty School-Spring Lake Park | Empire Beauty School-Spring Lake Park does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| University of Minnesota-Rochester | 578 | 6 (1.04%) |
177 (30.62%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Avalon School of Cosmetology | Avalon School of Cosmetology does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Nova Academy of Cosmetology | Nova Academy of Cosmetology does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Bethlehem College & Seminary | Bethlehem College & Seminary does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Bethany Global University | 81 | 81 (100.00%) |
- | 19 | 19 (100.00%) |
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| Red Lake Nation College | 338 | 332 (98.22%) |
- | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| The Salon Professional Academy Maplewood | no longer opens and does not accept applicants | ||||||
| Average | 295,198 | 87,083 (29.50%) |
80,634 (27.32%) |
110,620 | 83,019 (75.05%) |
7,773 (7.03%) | |
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