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Higher Education Enrollment, 2009

Undergraduate Schools

Undergraduate enrollment in Minnesota postsecondary schools was 339,697 in 2009 (includes private career school enrollment of 35,479 undergraduates and 10,837 at private online schools, including two institutions with national enrollments, omitted from the graph).

Bar graph showing undergraduate enrollment by type for a ten-year period
Year U of MN State Univ. Private Univ. Public 2-year
Colleges
1999 45,427 50,823 42,537 98,509
2000 44,839 52,941 44,055 101,875
2001 45,324 55,399 44,233 105,267
2002 45,874 57,340 45,874 109,844
2003 45,963 57,969 46,373 113,408
2004 46,084 57,620 47,106 112,582
2005 46,123 57,877 48,073 112,111
2006 46,350 57,963 48,658 114,616
2007 46,387 59,376 49,277 119,326
2008 46,606 60,284 49,536 123,778
2009 47,783 61,826 49,445 134,224

Graduate Schools

Graduate enrollment in Minnesota postsecondary schools was 109,840 in 2009 (includes private career school and graduate and professional enrollment of 1,554 graduate students and 61,875 graduate students at private online schools, including two institutions with national enrollments, omitted from the graph).

Bar graph showing graduate enrollment by type for a ten-year period

Year U of MN State Univ. Private Colleges, Univ.,
Grad. & Prof. Schools
1999 12,734 4,992 17,188
2000 14,344 5,132 18,037
2001 15,109 5,124 18,810
2002 16,915 5,364 14,730
2003 17,806 5,717 14,107
2004 19,163 5,922 18,934
2005 19,366 5,777 19,123
2006 19,403 5,822 19,713
2007 19,709 5,972 20,141
2008 19,706 6,218 16,756
2009 19,581 6,756 17,085

Originally published January 2011.