Red Lake is home to Red Lake Nation College
Red Lake Nation College has about 256 students on campus. 2 more colleges are within 30 miles.
What stands out about college in Red Lake
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
What would your family pay?
The average a year after grants and scholarships, for families on federal aid. Pick your family’s income.
Starts at $30–48k, where Red Lake’s median household income ($46K) falls.
Federal figures: your own price depends on your aid package. Every college has a net price calculator on its website. “—” = not reported for that income.
The college in Red Lake
Tap a college for who gets in, what families pay, majors and outcomes.
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Do students finish, and does it pay?
Each dot is a college: across is the share who graduate, up is what they earn ten years after starting. Red Lake’s are named; gray dots are colleges nearby.
Graduation: first-time, full-time students within 6 years (4-year colleges) or 3 years (2-year). Earnings: median, students on federal aid. A college that’s part of a larger system reports earnings for the whole system.
What students study in Red Lake
Share of degrees by field, then the biggest programs and what their graduates earn.
Biggest programs
What it’s like to live in Red Lake
How much the college shapes the town, and the pages a student or a new neighbor needs.
1 of every 100 Red Lake residents are in college (MN: 6).
More colleges near Red Lake
Colleges within 30 miles of the center of Red Lake, beyond its own.
Straight-line distance. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Dashed rows are too small, or report too little to the Department of Education, for a page of their own.
Neighbors talk college
Students, parents, alumni and the neighbors next door.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Colleges: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard and IPEDS (Scorecard 06/10/2026 · IPEDS 2024 · fall 2023). “On campus” counts fall enrollment minus students who study only online. Net price is the average a year after grants for families on federal aid; earnings are the median 10 years after starting, for students who got federal aid. Distances are straight-line from the center of Red Lake. Town figures: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.