Enrollment Trends

Upon application, Northland designates a home campus for each student based on academic program and geographical location. The graph illustrates the unduplicated headcount for each campus. Concurrent Students are assigned to Thief River Falls, unless otherwise specified by program major. Many Workforce Development Programs, such as Farm Business Management, do not assign a home campus.

Unduplicated Headcount

Full Year Equivalent Headcount (Credit-Based)

Credit-based enrollment using a full-year equivalent methodology. The credits produced at each campus are divided by 30, allowing us to see how many students Northland is serving if they all were taking a full-time course load. Students can take courses at multiple campuses. The chart below includes the credits produced by both undergraduate and concurrent students. 

Undergraduate Student Demographics 

Race & Ethnicity

All race and ethnicities are self-reported. Race and ethnicity categories were developed in 1997 by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and describe groups to which individuals identify or belong in the community’s eyes. The categories do not denote scientific definitions of anthropological origins. All categories align with the IPEDS reporting algorithm. 

Twenty-two percent of Northland’s Undergraduate student body reports a race/ethnicity other than white. Students of Color (SOC) include any student with a race/ethnicity of Asian, Black/African American, Native American/Native Alaskan, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and/or Hispanic/Latino. 

Student Gender

Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for boys and men or girls and women. While aspects of biological sex are similar across different cultures, aspects of gender may differ. Following Minnesota State guidelines, Northland reports gender in the binary (men/women) categories. 

Fifty-seven percent of Northland’s Undergraduate student body is female, and 42% is male. Northland does not know the gender of 1% of the undergraduate student body. 

First Generation (Minnesota) 

The Minnesota Department of Education defines first-generation students as individuals where neither parent has attended a post-secondary institution. 

Twenty-one percent of the undergraduate student body had neither parent attend post-secondary education. This is compared to 55% of students who may have had a parent participate in post-secondary education, but neither has earned a degree. 

Pell Eligible 

A student who applied for a federal Pell Grant, an award for undergraduates who display exceptional financial need and who have not earned a bachelor’s, graduate, or professional degree, and was determined to be eligible. (U.S. Department of Education, n.d.) 

Thirty-two percent of undergraduates are eligible to receive the Pell Grant. Northland does not have access to 45% of the student body’s financial needs. In FY2024, 28% of undergraduates received funds through the Pell Grant.