Northern State University - Demographics

Demographics

According to the enrollment summary for the fall of 2006, though the majority of Northern State University's students are Caucasian, it consists of students from many different cultures. Other than the 1,806 Caucasian students that make up 77.88 percent of the student population, Asians make the next highest denomination having 127 people (5.48 percent). After that, the largest population is that of the Native Americans contributing 70 people, which is 3.02 percent of the total student enrollment. African Americans make up the next largest group with thirty-four people, 1.47 percent of the students on campus. The smallest denomination of students is Hispanics consisting of twenty people, making up .86 percent of the total student body. The remaining 11.3 percent of students are either from a different background, refused to give the information, or are just unknown. 58.82 percent of the students, or 1, 364 students, are female and the remaining 41.18 percent, 955 students, are male. All in all, the attending students come from thirty-three different states and thirteen different countries. Northern State University has a total of nine full time and 187 part-time graduate students; they also have a total of 919 full-time undergraduate students and 134 part-time undergraduates. A census of the graduate school and undergraduate school students revealed the youngest age group was in the undergraduate population and constituted 3.3 percent, 70 people, of the undergraduate population. The age group between seventeen and twenty-three was the youngest group for the graduate population and made up 11.73 percent, twenty three people, of their population. That same age group fills up 77.86 percent of the undergraduate size, totaling 1, 653 students. Between the ages of twenty-four and twenty-nine, the undergraduates have 202 students making up 9.51 percent of their students, while the graduate total of sixty-three people makes up 32.14 percent of their enrollment. The ages of thirty to thirty five make up 3.44 percent, seventy-three people, of the undergraduates and 12.24 percent, 24 people, of the graduates. The undergraduates have a total of 123 people, 5.79 percent, between the ages of thirty-six and sixty-five and they have two students over the age of sixty-six; while the graduates have eighty-six people, 43.88 percent, between the ages of thirty-six and sixty-five, and no students over the age of sixty-six.