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Minnesota
Minnesota has 48 degree-granting institutions in this data. Between them they award 4,836 research doctorates and 23,987 master’s degrees over the window, and take $764.4m in federal research and development money.
This page counts every institution in the state, including the ones that award no graduate degree at all. Leaving those out would make a state look like its flagship.
institutions in the state
15 award a research doctorate. 8 enrol no graduate students at all.
of research doctorates go to non-residents
943 of 4,836. National figure: 38.9%.
of graduate enrolment is non-resident
6,778 of 107,223 graduate students.
federal research and development money
Across 21 institutions. $607.9m in total federal obligations.
Where Minnesota sits
The non-resident share of research doctorates, against the same figure for the country. That is 19.4 points below the national figure of 38.9%. The pattern this site measures nationally is weaker here, not stronger.
Minnesota ranks 49 of 52 states on that share, and 15 of 56 on the number of research doctorates it awards. Rank 1 is the highest. Only states that award doctorates are ranked.
Undergraduate and graduate, side by side
The same institutions at two levels. Undergraduate is the remainder once graduate enrolment is taken out of the total, and both levels carry their own non-resident count. In Minnesota the graduate share is 2.7 points higher than the undergraduate share.
Click any column heading to sort. Click it again to reverse. The panel under the table narrows what is shown — everything is shown until you ask for less.
| Institution | Undergraduates | Non-res | Share | Graduates | Non-res | Share | State funding | Federal R&D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 39,556 | 1,918 | 4.8% | 15,334 | 3,313 | 21.6% | $672.0m | $1.41bn |
| Walden University | 7,362 | 34 | 0.5% | 36,861 | 655 | 1.8% | — | — |
| Capella University | 16,177 | 81 | 0.5% | 27,738 | 193 | 0.7% | — | — |
| Minnesota State University-Mankato | 12,897 | 1,064 | 8.2% | 1,812 | 260 | 14.3% | $79.6m | $3.2m |
| Saint Cloud State University | 8,430 | 670 | 7.9% | 2,084 | 570 | 27.4% | $73.3m | $4.4m |
| University of Minnesota-Duluth | 8,525 | 85 | 1.0% | 825 | 72 | 8.7% | $71.3m | $29.9m |
| University of St Thomas | 6,044 | 219 | 3.6% | 3,077 | 271 | 8.8% | — | — |
| Rasmussen University-Minnesota | 8,054 | 1 | 0.0% | 769 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Southwest Minnesota State University | 6,884 | 103 | 1.5% | 440 | 44 | 10.0% | $26.7m | — |
| Winona State University | 5,267 | 105 | 2.0% | 791 | 9 | 1.1% | $50.6m | — |
| Metropolitan State University | 5,271 | 127 | 2.4% | 734 | 45 | 6.1% | $44.6m | — |
| Concordia University-Saint Paul | 3,146 | 25 | 0.8% | 2,708 | 825 | 30.5% | — | — |
| Minnesota State University Moorhead | 3,413 | 148 | 4.3% | 997 | 6 | 0.6% | $38.2m | — |
| Bemidji State University | 3,610 | 64 | 1.8% | 316 | 7 | 2.2% | $31.9m | — |
| Saint Mary's University of Minnesota | 1,075 | 26 | 2.4% | 2,756 | 42 | 1.5% | — | — |
| St Catherine University | 2,431 | 12 | 0.5% | 1,102 | 8 | 0.7% | — | $824,000 |
| Bethel University | 2,629 | 3 | 0.1% | 892 | 21 | 2.4% | — | — |
| University of Northwestern-St Paul | 3,173 | 20 | 0.6% | 89 | 5 | 5.6% | — | — |
| Augsburg University | 2,445 | 57 | 2.3% | 716 | 24 | 3.4% | — | — |
| St Olaf College | 3,074 | 303 | 9.9% | — | — | — | — | $1.5m |
| The College of Saint Scholastica | 1,755 | 70 | 4.0% | 1,224 | 2 | 0.2% | — | — |
| Hamline University | 1,710 | 20 | 1.2% | 722 | 36 | 5.0% | — | — |
| Macalester College | 2,142 | 290 | 13.5% | — | — | — | — | $1.9m |
| Carleton College | 2,069 | 207 | 10.0% | — | — | — | — | $5.0m |
| Gustavus Adolphus College | 1,952 | 93 | 4.8% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Concordia College at Moorhead | 1,799 | 115 | 6.4% | 69 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College | 1,749 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | — | $8.0m | — |
| Crown College | 1,379 | 29 | 2.1% | 348 | 6 | 1.7% | — | — |
| Saint Johns University | 1,481 | 53 | 3.6% | 143 | 38 | 26.6% | — | — |
| Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science | 296 | 3 | 1.0% | 1,184 | 160 | 13.5% | — | — |
| College of Saint Benedict | 1,410 | 49 | 3.5% | 41 | 0 | 0.0% | — | $1.5m |
| Mitchell Hamline School of Law | 0 | 0 | — | 1,217 | 18 | 1.5% | — | — |
| Northwestern Health Sciences University | 366 | 11 | 3.0% | 666 | 74 | 11.1% | — | — |
| North Central University | 865 | 10 | 1.2% | 119 | 2 | 1.7% | — | — |
| Bethany Lutheran College | 850 | 130 | 15.3% | 52 | 1 | 1.9% | — | — |
| Martin Luther College | 743 | 11 | 1.5% | 117 | 6 | 5.1% | — | — |
| Minneapolis College of Art and Design | 714 | 14 | 2.0% | 110 | 19 | 17.3% | — | — |
| Herzing University-Minneapolis | 748 | 0 | 0.0% | 4 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| University of Minnesota-Rochester | 588 | 7 | 1.2% | — | — | — | $10.0m | $921,000 |
| Luther Seminary | 0 | 0 | — | 348 | 34 | 9.8% | — | — |
| Red Lake Nation College | 256 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Adler Graduate School | 0 | 0 | — | 245 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities | 0 | 0 | — | 244 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Leech Lake Tribal College | 243 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bethany Global University | 162 | 1 | 0.6% | 39 | 8 | 20.5% | — | — |
| Bethlehem College & Seminary | 92 | 4 | 4.3% | 102 | 4 | 3.9% | — | — |
| Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School | 0 | 0 | — | 159 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| American Academy of Health and Wellness | 0 | 0 | — | 29 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
The two levels diverge most at Concordia University-Saint Paul: 0.8% of its 3,146 undergraduates and 30.5% of its 2,708 graduate students. These are different admissions systems with different applicant pools, different money and different reasons to say yes, and a single state figure hides both.
6,182 of 172,832 undergraduates and 6,778 of 107,223 graduate students. IPEDS reports no graduate enrolment for 8 of these institutions; their rows show a dash rather than a zero, because the file not carrying a number is not the same as the number being none.
What the state figure is an average of
The largest graduate enrolments in Minnesota, each with its own non-resident share. Nothing here is excluded from the figures above. The point is to show what they are made of.
| Institution | Graduate students | Share of the state | Non-resident |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walden University | 36,861 | 34.4% | 1.8% |
| Capella University | 27,738 | 25.9% | 0.7% |
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 15,334 | 14.3% | 21.6% |
| University of St Thomas | 3,077 | 2.9% | 8.8% |
| Saint Mary's University of Minnesota | 2,756 | 2.6% | 1.5% |
| Concordia University-Saint Paul | 2,708 | 2.5% | 30.5% |
One institution is moving this figure
Walden University holds 34.4% of the graduate enrolment in Minnesota and is 1.8% non-resident. Take it out and the rest of the state is 8.7%, against 6.3% with it in. A state average is not a description of its universities when one of them is most of the state.
Practical training, and the other student visas
A student visa does not end at graduation. Optional Practical Training lets a graduate work on the same visa, and a STEM degree adds a further twenty-four months. It applies at both levels — a foreign undergraduate can take OPT as readily as a doctoral graduate — which is why the undergraduate share above is not the end of the story.
| Institution | OPT authorisations | National rank | STEM OPT authorisations | National rank | Students employed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 715 | 58 | 359 | 47 | 1,217 |
Do not add these two columns together. A graduate who holds post-completion OPT and then a STEM extension in the same year appears in both, and the sum counts that person twice. They are authorisations, not people. Figures are for 2024, from SEVP’s top-100 and top-200 school lists — an institution outside those lists has no published figure, which is a fact about the list and never a zero.
J-1 physicians. Minnesota is not in the published top twelve states for J-1 physicians in graduate medical education, which is the only state breakdown ECFMG publishes. That is an absence from a short list, not a zero.
In-state against out-of-state
Public four-year institutions, FY2024. Every foreign student pays the out-of-state rate, so this is the price attached to the non-resident column everywhere else on this page.
An out-of-state student in Minnesota is worth 1.68× an in-state one to the institution. They are 26.8% of the students and 38.0% of the tuition revenue.
| Measure | In-state | Out-of-state |
|---|---|---|
| Share of students (FTE) | 73.2% | 26.8% |
| Net tuition and fees collected per student | $11,455 | $19,196 |
| Share of tuition revenue | 62.0% | 38.0% |
Out-of-state is not the same as foreign. SHEEO counts international students and domestic students from other states in one column. This shows what a non-resident pays, never how many of them are foreign. Figures are net tuition and fee revenue per full-time-equivalent student — what the institution actually collected after its own aid, not the published price. Public four-year institutions only; medical FTE excluded.
Every institution
Largest first by total enrolment. A dash means the institution awards none of that degree, or that no federal research money was matched to it.
| Institution | City | Control | Enrolled | Graduate | Master’s | Non-res | Doctorates | Non-res | Federal R&D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | Minneapolis | public | 54,890 | 15,334 | 4,925 | 1,806 | 3,580 | 1,338 | $1.41bn |
| Walden University | Minneapolis | private for-profit | 44,223 | 36,861 | 3,269 | 47 | 8,208 | 206 | — |
| Capella University | Minneapolis | private for-profit | 43,915 | 27,738 | 9,430 | 132 | 5,957 | 71 | — |
| Minnesota State University-Mankato | Mankato | public | 14,709 | 1,812 | 503 | 226 | 72 | 3 | $3.2m |
| Saint Cloud State University | Saint Cloud | public | 10,514 | 2,084 | 1,066 | 550 | 90 | 5 | $4.4m |
| University of Minnesota-Duluth | Duluth | public | 9,350 | 825 | 458 | 110 | — | — | $29.9m |
| University of St Thomas | Saint Paul | private nonprofit | 9,121 | 3,077 | 1,291 | 260 | 218 | 16 | — |
| Rasmussen University-Minnesota | St. Cloud | private for-profit | 8,823 | 769 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Southwest Minnesota State University | Marshall | public | 7,324 | 440 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Winona State University | Winona | public | 6,058 | 791 | — | — | 44 | 0 | — |
| Metropolitan State University | Saint Paul | public | 6,005 | 734 | 179 | 50 | 13 | 0 | — |
| Concordia University-Saint Paul | Saint Paul | private nonprofit | 5,854 | 2,708 | 1,270 | 1,221 | 128 | 0 | — |
| Minnesota State University Moorhead | Moorhead | public | 4,410 | 997 | 49 | 4 | 91 | 1 | — |
| Bemidji State University | Bemidji | public | 3,926 | 316 | 51 | 2 | — | — | — |
| Saint Mary's University of Minnesota | Winona | private nonprofit | 3,831 | 2,756 | 1,044 | 7 | 170 | 15 | — |
| St Catherine University | Saint Paul | private nonprofit | 3,533 | 1,102 | — | — | — | — | $824,000 |
| Bethel University | Saint Paul | private nonprofit | 3,521 | 892 | 6 | 0 | 101 | 2 | — |
| University of Northwestern-St Paul | Saint Paul | private nonprofit | 3,262 | 89 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Augsburg University | Minneapolis | private nonprofit | 3,161 | 716 | — | — | — | — | — |
| St Olaf College | Northfield | private nonprofit | 3,074 | — | — | — | — | — | $1.5m |
| The College of Saint Scholastica | Duluth | private nonprofit | 2,979 | 1,224 | 93 | 2 | — | — | — |
| Hamline University | Saint Paul | private nonprofit | 2,432 | 722 | — | — | 74 | 0 | — |
| Macalester College | Saint Paul | private nonprofit | 2,142 | — | — | — | — | — | $1.9m |
| Carleton College | Northfield | private nonprofit | 2,069 | — | — | — | — | — | $5.0m |
| Gustavus Adolphus College | Saint Peter | private nonprofit | 1,952 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Concordia College at Moorhead | Moorhead | private nonprofit | 1,868 | 69 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College | Cloquet | public | 1,749 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Crown College | Saint Bonifacius | private nonprofit | 1,727 | 348 | 219 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Saint Johns University | Collegeville | private nonprofit | 1,624 | 143 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science | Rochester | private nonprofit | 1,480 | 1,184 | 54 | 41 | 209 | 50 | — |
| College of Saint Benedict | Saint Joseph | private nonprofit | 1,451 | 41 | — | — | — | — | $1.5m |
| Mitchell Hamline School of Law | Saint Paul | private nonprofit | 1,217 | 1,217 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Northwestern Health Sciences University | Bloomington | private nonprofit | 1,032 | 666 | — | — | — | — | — |
| North Central University | Minneapolis | private nonprofit | 984 | 119 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bethany Lutheran College | Mankato | private nonprofit | 902 | 52 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Martin Luther College | New Ulm | private nonprofit | 860 | 117 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Minneapolis College of Art and Design | Minneapolis | private nonprofit | 824 | 110 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Herzing University-Minneapolis | St. Louis Park | private nonprofit | 752 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — |
| University of Minnesota-Rochester | Rochester | public | 588 | — | — | — | — | — | $921,000 |
| Luther Seminary | Saint Paul | private nonprofit | 348 | 348 | — | — | 7 | 3 | — |
| Red Lake Nation College | Red Lake | public | 256 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Adler Graduate School | Minnetonka | private nonprofit | 245 | 245 | 80 | 0 | — | — | — |
| United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities | St. Paul | private nonprofit | 244 | 244 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Leech Lake Tribal College | Cass Lake | public | 243 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bethany Global University | Bloomington | private nonprofit | 201 | 39 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bethlehem College & Seminary | Minneapolis | private nonprofit | 194 | 102 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School | Center City | private nonprofit | 159 | 159 | — | — | — | — | — |
| American Academy of Health and Wellness | Roseville | private for-profit | 29 | 29 | — | — | — | — | — |
Degrees are pooled over 2021–2025. Enrolment and federal money are the most recent year in the file. “Non-res” means a student here on a temporary visa, almost always F-1 or J-1. A green card holder is not counted in it.
How few institutions this is
Of the 48 institutions in Minnesota, 15 award a research doctorate at all, and the largest two award 74.7% of them. A state’s graduate pipeline is a much smaller thing than its list of colleges.
| Institution | Research doctorates | Non-resident | Share | Share of the state’s doctorates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walden University | 8,208 | 206 | 2.5% | 43.3% |
| Capella University | 5,957 | 71 | 1.2% | 31.4% |
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 3,580 | 1,338 | 37.4% | 18.9% |
| University of St Thomas | 218 | 16 | 7.3% | 1.1% |
| Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science | 209 | 50 | 23.9% | 1.1% |
| Saint Mary's University of Minnesota | 170 | 15 | 8.8% | 0.9% |
| Concordia University-Saint Paul | 128 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.7% |
| Bethel University | 101 | 2 | 2.0% | 0.5% |
| Minnesota State University Moorhead | 91 | 1 | 1.1% | 0.5% |
| Saint Cloud State University | 90 | 5 | 5.6% | 0.5% |
| Hamline University | 74 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.4% |
| Minnesota State University-Mankato | 72 | 3 | 4.2% | 0.4% |
| Winona State University | 44 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.2% |
| Metropolitan State University | 13 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.1% |
| Luther Seminary | 7 | 3 | 42.9% | 0.0% |
The foreign share of graduate students, where the survey reaches
The NSF Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates asks institutions directly, and it covers 6 of the 48 institutions in Minnesota. It is a different measure from the degree counts above: enrolled students rather than degrees awarded.
| Institution | Doctoral students foreign | Master’s students foreign |
|---|---|---|
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 43.8% | 29.0% |
| University of Minnesota-Duluth | 28.6% | 23.1% |
| Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science | 26.0% | —% |
| Minnesota State University-Mankato | —% | 17.1% |
| Saint Cloud State University | —% | 47.8% |
| Bemidji State University | —% | 14.3% |
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
The highest foreign share of doctoral students in the state, at 43.8%. It is not the largest institution here and it is not the one with the most federal money. Size and share are different questions, and a state page that ranked only by size would not show this.
What the state itself puts in
State appropriations per full-time-equivalent student, from the SHEEO finance survey, against the change in the foreign share of graduate enrolment over the same window.
| Measure | First year | Last year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| State appropriations per FTE student | $8,628 | $9,641 | +11.7% |
| Foreign share of graduate enrolment | 13.4% | 18.5% | +5.1 pts |
These two rows move for their own reasons. Nothing here shows that one caused the other, and the page does not say it did.
Department by department
The dissertation corpus reaches 1 institution in this state, covering 40 departments. 10 of them are majority non-resident.
| Institution | Department | Doctorates | Non-resident | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U Minnesota | Industrial Engineering | 32 | 28 | 87.5% |
| U Minnesota | Electrical and Electronics Engineering | 249 | 194 | 77.9% |
| U Minnesota | Statistics, General | 46 | 33 | 71.7% |
| U Minnesota | Computer Science | 212 | 137 | 64.6% |
| U Minnesota | Agricultural Engineering | 36 | 23 | 63.9% |
| U Minnesota | Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering, General | 85 | 51 | 60.0% |
| U Minnesota | Materials Engineering | 89 | 51 | 57.3% |
| U Minnesota | Civil Engineering, General | 92 | 52 | 56.5% |
| U Minnesota | Mechanical Engineering | 193 | 109 | 56.5% |
| U Minnesota | Chemical Engineering | 185 | 94 | 50.8% |
| U Minnesota | Physics, General | 151 | 70 | 46.4% |
| U Minnesota | Plant Pathology/Phytopathology | 16 | 7 | 43.8% |
| U Minnesota | Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Other | 41 | 17 | 41.5% |
| U Minnesota | Biostatistics | 57 | 22 | 38.6% |
| U Minnesota | Pharmacology | 73 | 28 | 38.4% |
| U Minnesota | Nutrition Sciences | 39 | 14 | 35.9% |
| U Minnesota | Geology/Earth Science, General | 39 | 13 | 33.3% |
| U Minnesota | Mathematics, General | 133 | 44 | 33.1% |
| U Minnesota | Chemistry, General | 257 | 84 | 32.7% |
| U Minnesota | Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | 33 | 10 | 30.3% |
| U Minnesota | Botany/Plant Biology, Other | 20 | 6 | 30.0% |
| U Minnesota | Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering | 126 | 36 | 28.6% |
| U Minnesota | Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology | 64 | 18 | 28.1% |
| U Minnesota | Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other | 15 | 4 | 26.7% |
| U Minnesota | Water Resources Engineering | 17 | 4 | 23.5% |
| U Minnesota | Botany/Plant Biology | 26 | 6 | 23.1% |
| U Minnesota | Research and Experimental Psychology, Other | 165 | 34 | 20.6% |
| U Minnesota | Entomology | 35 | 7 | 20.0% |
| U Minnesota | Bioinformatics | 26 | 5 | 19.2% |
| U Minnesota | Molecular Biology | 32 | 6 | 18.8% |
| U Minnesota | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 85 | 16 | 18.8% |
| U Minnesota | Ecology | 75 | 13 | 17.3% |
| U Minnesota | Biology/Biological Sciences, General | 56 | 8 | 14.3% |
| U Minnesota | Educational Psychology | 175 | 24 | 13.7% |
| U Minnesota | Conservation Biology | 27 | 3 | 11.1% |
| U Minnesota | Microbiology and Immunology | 81 | 8 | 9.9% |
| U Minnesota | Neuroscience | 84 | 5 | 6.0% |
| U Minnesota | Developmental and Child Psychology | 53 | 3 | 5.7% |
| U Minnesota | Epidemiology | 71 | 4 | 5.6% |
| U Minnesota | Astrophysics | 20 | 0 | 0.0% |
From the dissertation corpus, which is built from what universities publish about their own graduates. It covers the institutions on this site, not every institution in the state, so it is a floor.
What is not published for a state this size
Two of the measures this site uses elsewhere do not exist at this scale, and the reason is the same in both cases: the agency publishes a ranked extract rather than the whole file.
- Practical training is not published here. SEVP releases the top 100 and top 200 schools for OPT and STEM OPT, not every school. An institution outside those lists has no published figure at all. Its absence is a fact about the list, not about the institution, and it must never be read as a zero.
- Student visa counts are not published by state. DHS reports SEVIS records nationally and names a few states per region in its commentary. For most states it publishes a percentage change and no count, so the number of foreign students physically in a state cannot be read off the federal release.
- Enrolment is the measure that does exist. IPEDS asks every institution directly, which is why this page is built from it. It counts students enrolled, not visas issued, and the two are different questions.
Method and limits
- Non-resident means here on a temporary visa. IPEDS defines it as a person “who is not a citizen or national of the United States and who is in this country on a visa or temporary basis and does not have the right to remain indefinitely.” A green card holder is therefore never counted here. Neither is a refugee or an asylee. Those students are reported in the race and ethnicity categories alongside citizens. For students the category is overwhelmingly F-1 and J-1.
- It is not ethnicity and not country of origin. A US-born citizen of any background is never non-resident. The status is recorded when the student enrols, for the enrolment figures, and when the degree is awarded, for the degree counts. These files cannot be split any other way.
- Degrees are pooled over 2021–2025, because a single year at a small institution moves on one student.
- Enrolment and awards are different measures and will not agree. One counts people on a given day; the other counts degrees conferred over five years.
- Federal money is matched to a campus, and a system that reports centrally can carry money its branches spend.
- This page shows composition, not displacement. It records who received the degrees. It does not show that anyone was kept out, and nothing here should be read that way.
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