Lake Superior College

City/population: Duluth/85,170

Tuition and fees (2008-2009): $4,254

FAFSA code: 005757

Enrollment:
Total number students served: 8,084
Full-year equivalent enrollment: 3,279
Percent female: 53.1%
Percent male: 46.9%
Percent students of color: 7.1%

Degrees offered: Associate in Arts, Associate in Fine Arts, Associate in Science, Associate in Applied Science, diplomas, certificates

Largest programs: Associate in Arts degree, practical nursing, radiologic technology, associate degree nurse, dental hygiene, fire technology and administration

Unique programs: Professional pilot, paralegal, hemodialysis patient care technician, sonography

Student activities: Student Senate and more than 40 clubs, including art and ceramics, computer gaming, snowboarding and skiing, curling, chess, intercultural, Spanish, veterans

Housing: The college has no on-campus housing but provides information to students seeking housing in the community.

Highlights

Lake Superior College is situated on a wooded campus that overlooks Duluth’s famous harbor and the St. Louis River Valley. It features award-winning architecture, comfortable classrooms, up-to-date technical labs, and beautiful study and library facilities. The campus has a natural setting that includes an urban forest, nature trails and a trout stream.

• Lake Superior College offers more than 90 technical majors, programs for transfer, continuing education and customized training for business and industry.
• A long-time provider of online education, the college operates one of the largest online instructional programs in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system, serving more than 800 full-year-equivalent students and offering more than 140 courses each semester. Online programs include hemodialysis patient care, accounting, business administration and transfer degrees.
• The college offers semester-abroad programs in Italy and Mexico.
• The Emergency Response Training Center provides world-class training for emergency response professionals, including firefighters and emergency medical technicians.
• The college offers dental hygiene and physical therapy services to students and uninsured residents of the region through faculty-supervised student clinics.
• An Honors Online program provides college courses to high school students via the Internet.
• A new $12.5 million academic and student services expansion opened in 2007.

Last updated: 10/08