TCU Spotlight: Sitting Bull College
A Tribal College
Education
Sitting Bull College (SBC), located on the Standing
Rock Reservation in North Dakota, is committed to
improving the education, training, and economic
and social development of its students and behavior
consistent with Lakota/Dakota culture and language.
College courses were first offered on the Standing
Rock Reservation in 1968. The school began the
accreditation process in 1975 and was fully accredited
in 1984.
Between 2000 and 2012, SBC raised more than $23
million to build a new $40 million campus. It moved
its entire base of operations there in 2011. The new
campus includes a Cultural Center, Science and
Technology Center, Family Support Center, Public
Transit Center, Entrepreneurial Center, Student Support
Center/Library, Finance Center, Trades Center, and
Student Housing Complex. The campus is powered by
two wind turbines that the school owns and operates
and uses for training in its wind energy technology
certification program. The school also operates two
satellite campuses in South Dakota.
SBC offers seven bachelor’s degree programs in
business, education, environmental science, and
general studies; 17 associate’s degree programs in
building trades, business fields, energy technician
programs, education, environmental science, general
studies, nursing, information technology, legal
studies, Native American studies, natural resources
management, and pre-engineering; and certificate
programs in building trades, business fields; farm/
ranch management; horsemanship; information
technology; Native community development; and wind
turbine technology.
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What Is A Tribal College?
Tribal Colleges Are Affordable Options
Tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) are accredited
higher education institutions located on or near Indian
reservations.
Tribal colleges provide Native students with access to an affordable college education, along with important services such
as GED coursework, day care, health centers, libraries, computer centers, language preservation classes, community
activities, and lifelong learning programs.
These institutions were established and are operated
by American Indian tribes to educate Native people and
preserve Native ways, giving students the opportunity to
work towards a college degree while embracing who they
are as Native people.
Even if you think college is a distant dream, you will be surprised to learn that you CAN afford college. Thanks to financial
aid packages available through your tribal college and scholarships from the American Indian College Fund, there is no need
to abandon your dream of earning a degree!
Diné College was the first TCU, founded in 1968 by the
Navajo nation. Today there are 35 accredited TCUs across
the United States.
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www.collegefund.org. Apply today!
Tribal Colleges and Universities in the United States
For more information, go to www.collegefund.org/tribal_colleges_listing. There you can click on each TCU’s listing by
location on the map or search for it in the drop-down menu. The site includes information about the schools and their
programs, along with links to their web sites. There you can find admissions and contact information.
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communities. The College of Menominee Nation
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404 jobs, and generated more than $833,000 in tax
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technology, engineering, and mathematics program,
which includes prestigious internship and mentoring
opportunities;
TCUs are competitive. Leech Lake Tribal College was
ranked by Washington Monthly as the seventh of
“America’s 50 Best Community Colleges” in 2010. It
was one of two TCUs to earn this recognition.
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Alaska
6 Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa
1 Ilisagvik College
Community College
7 Saginaw Chippewa Tribal
College
Minnesota
Arizona
2 Diné College
3 Tohono O’odham Community
College
Kansas
4 Haskell Indian Nations
University
Michigan
5 Bay Mills Community College
8 Fond du Lac Tribal and
12 Chief Dull Knife College
13 Aaniiih Nakoda College
14 Fort Peck Community College
15 Little Big Horn College
16 Salish Kootenai College
17 Stone Child College
Community College
9 Leech Lake Tribal College
10 White Earth Tribal and
Community College
Montana
Nebraska
11 Blackfeet Community College
20 Navajo Technical College
18 Little Priest Tribal College
19 Nebraska Indian Community
College
New Mexico
21 Institute of American Indian Arts
22 Southwestern Indian
Polytechnic Institute
North Dakota
23 Cankdeska Cikana Community
College
24 Fort Berthold Community
College
25 Sitting Bull College
26 Turtle Mountain Community
College
27 United Tribes Technical College
Oklahoma
28 College of the Muscogee
Nation
South Dakota
29 Oglala Lakota College
30 Sinte Gleska University
31 Sisseton Wahpeton College
Virginia
32 American Indian Higher
Education Consortium
Washington
33 Northwest Indian College
Wisconsin
34 College of Menominee Nation
35 Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa
Community College
AIHEC Associate Members
Minnesota
36 Red Lake Tribal College
Oklahoma
37 Comanche Nation College
Wyoming
38 Wind River Tribal College
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