Enrollment Trends at MSU-Bottineau

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,010 where 1,204 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

The female to male ratio is 1.85 to 1 and it means that there are more female students enrolled in MSU-Bottineau than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Dakota College at Bottineau since 2015.

• Trends Table
• By Gender Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	692	371	321
2016-17	811 119	428 57	383 62
2017-18	909 98	432 4	477 94
2018-19	996 87	422 -10	574 97
2019-20	1,006 10	415 -7	591 17
2020-21	1,060 54	393 -22	667 76
2021-22	1,163 103	424 31	739 72
2022-23	1,080 -83	406 -18	674 -65
2023-24	1,180 100	447 41	733 59
2024-25	1,204 24	423 -24	781 48
Average	1,010	416	594

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 75.50%. The percentage was 64.02% 10 years ago and MSU-Bottineau still has a high percentage of white students. 0.58% of enrolled students is Asian and 2.24% is black students. Hispanic students comprise 3.32% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students increased from 64.02% to 75.50%. Asian enrollment grew from 0.29% to 0.58%. Black student enrollment decreased from 13.15% to 2.24%. Hispanic student representation contracted from 4.05% to 3.32%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.4245 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This decreased from 0.5689 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has declined.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Dakota College at Bottineau over the past 11 years (2015-2025).

• Trends Table
• Interactive Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	American Indian or Native American	Asian	Black	Hispanic	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White	Two or More Races
	2015-16	17	2	91	28	3	443	29
2016-17	40	4	69	40	3	513	46
2017-18	37	5	75	42	5	585	47
2018-19	34	2	86	50	1	689	49
2019-20	28	7	94	57	1	698	55
2020-21	34	4	45	45	1	804	51
2021-22	26	4	43	54	0	890	57
2022-23	27	5	23	58	0	830	45
2023-24	24	8	31	50	0	901	70
2024-25	25	7	27	40	0	909	71
Average	29	5	58	46	1	726	52