[1] The Twin Cities campus of the public University of Minnesota is the largest university in the state with 54,890 enrolled at the start of the 2023–24 academic year, making it the ninth-largest American campus by enrollment size.
[2] The University of Minnesota system has four other campuses in Crookston, Duluth, Morris, and Rochester.
[6] Center City–based Hazelden Graduate School of Addiction Studies is the state's smallest postsecondary institution, while Century College in White Bear Lake is Minnesota's largest community and technical college.
[9] Most are accredited by multiple agencies, such as the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), the National League for Nursing (NLNAC), and the American Psychological Association (APA).
While the University of Minnesota was chartered by the state in 1851, it did not operate as a place of higher education for nearly two decades.