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Location and Scope Tuition and Fees
Total Fall Enrollment Student/Faculty Ratio
Demographics NDSU's Statistical Profile
Enrollment per College Campus Calendar
Degree Programs Other Affiliated Organizations

Location and Scope

Location: Fargo, North Dakota
Scope: Teaching, Research, Service -- North Dakota's Land-Grant University


Total Fall Enrollment

Total fall 2007 enrollment (Fargo campus), including Continuing Education students is 12,527

That number includes 2,166 attending college for the first time.

Size:

    + 1776 Graduate students

    + 10403 Undergraduate students

    + 737 new transfers


    Demographics

    Students from ND Residents MN Residents Non-Resident International Permanent Residents
    Spring 2008

    5,486
    50%

    4,293
    36.7%
    590
    5.0%
    828
    7.1%
    142
    1.2%
    Fall 2007

    6,282
    50.2%

    4,656
    37.2%
    632
    5.0%
    802
    6.4%
    155
    1.2%


    Enrollment per College

    Fall 2007 enrollment numbers: (Fall 2006 enrollment in parentheses)

    • College of Agriculture -- 1,043 (1,111)
    • College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences -- 1,498 (1,432)
    • College of Business Administration -- 1,309 (1,266)
    • College of Engineering and Architecture -- 2,606 (2,533)
    • College of Human Development and Education -- 1,673 (1,647)
    • College of Pharmacy, Nursing & Allied Sciences -- 1,421 (1,412)
    • College of Science and Mathematics -- 1,588 (1,468)
    • College of University Studies -- 825 (882)
    • *Graduate School -- 1,776 (1,662)


    • * Included in college-by-college counts


    Degree Programs

    • 108 Baccalaureate Majors
    • 55 Master's Degrees
    • 38 Doctoral Degrees
    • 1 specialist degree
    • 3 professional doctoral degrees

           Academic Colleges


    Tuition and Fees

    2008/09 Undergraduate (Per semester)

    Resident Minnesota
    (Estimated)
    Neighbor Non-
    resident

    Total Maximum
    **
    (Tuition & Fees)
    *$3,113.06 *$3,286.06 *$4,428.56 *$7,507.56

    Tuition (only)
    per semester
    credit hour

    $219.33 $233.75 $328.96 $585.54

    ** Based on Fall and Spring Semesters and 12 or more credits each semester
    *Includes a one-time fee for new students that provides orientation and academic support programs provided by the Orientation and Student Success Office.


    Total Room and Board $6,220.00

    2008/09 Graduate (Per semester)

    Resident Minnesota
    (Estimated)
    Neighbor

    Non-
    resident

    Total Maximum**
    (Tuition and Fees)
    $3,303.56 $3,919.06 $4,714.56 $8,017.06
    Tuition (only)
    per semester
    credit hour
    $235.21 $286.50 $352.79 $628.00

    **Based on Fall and Spring Semesters and 12 or more credits each semester


    Student faculty ratio

    19:1


    2007-2008 statistical profile of NDSU

    • 5,596 total employees, all categories
      • 71 Administrators
      • 734 Ranked Faculty and Lecturers
      • 738 Graduate Assistants and Fellows
      • 286 Extension Educators & Experiment Station & Other Researchers
      • 1,382 Broadbanded staff, including professional, technical, Office, trades, and service Staff
      • 2,385 student and other temporary staff

    • 71,190 living NDSU alumni (approximately)

    • 22,053 acres including more than 18,000 off-campus agricultural research acres

    • 104 buildings on the main campus: 237 major Agricultural Experiment Station Buildings

    • 41 square blocks main campus (258 acres)


    Campus Calendar

    NDSU is on a semester system, with classes running from late August to late December and January through early May. Summer sessions, one modified and one full, are also offered.

    Fall and spring semester calendar schedules are identical for all eleven North Dakota University System Universities and Colleges.


    Other Affiliated Organizations

    Agricultural Experiment Station, Cooperative Extension Service, Northern Crops Institute, NDSU Research Foundation, NDSU Research and Technology Park, Institute for Business and Industry Development, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute


 

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