Location and Scope

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

Total Fall Enrollment

Total fall 2008 enrollment (Fargo campus), including Continuing Education students is 13,229

The enrollment number includes 2,661 freshmen attending college for the first time.

The student faculty ratio is 19:1

Size

+ 1,818 graduate students

+ 11,411 undergraduate students

+ 718 new transfers

Demographics

Students from	ND Residents	MN Residents	Non-Resident	International	Permanent Residents
Fall 2008	6,329 48%	5,129 39%	651 4.9%	963* 7.3%	157 1.2%
Spring 2008	5,486 50%	4,293 36.7%	590 5.0%	970* 8.3%	155 1.2%

*International students on both temporary and permanent visas are added together to make up the total number of international students.

Enrollment by College

Fall 2008 enrollment numbers (Fall 2007 enrollment in parentheses)

• College of Agriculture -- 1,187 (1,043)
• College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences -- 1,466 (1,498)
• College of Business Administration -- 1,430 (1,309)
• College of Engineering and Architecture -- 2,811 (2,606)
• College of Human Development and Education -- 1,717 (1,673)
• College of Pharmacy, Nursing & Allied Sciences -- 1,567 (1,421)
• College of Science and Mathematics -- 1,603 (1,588)
• College of University Studies -- 848 (825)
• Graduate School -- 1,818 (1,776)*

* Included in college-by-college counts

Degree Programs

• Undergraduate Majors -- 102
• Master's Degrees -- 59
• Doctoral Degrees -- 42
• Specialist degree -- 1
• Professional doctoral degrees -- 3

Distance and Continuing Education

• Total online degrees -- 21
• Undergraduate degrees -- 5
• Certificate programs -- 5
• Masters degrees -- 11

Tuition and Fees

2008/09 Undergraduate

	Resident	Minnesota (Estimated)	Neighbor	Non- resident
Total Maximum** (Tuition & Fees)	*$5,264	*$5,504	*$7,895	*$14,053
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 per year: $6,220.00

2008/09 Graduate

	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

2007-2008 Profile of NDSU

• Employees -- 5,878
  
  • Administrators -- 90
  • Ranked faculty and lecturers -- 821
  • Graduate assistants and fellows -- 716
  • Extension educators, experiment station researchers and other researchers -- 280
  • Broad-banded staff, including professional, technical, office, trades and service staff -- 1,415
  • Student and other temporary staff -- 2,556
• Living NDSU alumni (approximately) -- 72,760
• 22,053 acres including more than 18,000 off-campus agricultural research acres
• 107 buildings on 42 square blocks
• 237 major Agricultural Experiment Station buildings

Employment

• 69.1% of recent graduates who listed North Dakota as their home state are employed in the state.
• 95.7% of recent NDSU graduates are employed or furthering their educations.

(Annual Employment Report-2007 prepared by the NDSU Career Center. Statistics based on 1,147 responses from 1,488 graduates who earned bachelor's degrees for the terms ending in December 2006 and May 2007.)

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.

NDSU Academic calendar

NDSU Events calendar

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

Institute for Regional Studies and University Archive

North Dakota Trade Office