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Chief Dull Knife College

Chief Dull Knife College

Lame Deer, MT · Rural · 183 students
WebsiteScorecard
$14,010
Average net priceYour net price
In-state · 2023-24
<30
30–48
48–75
75–110
110+
By household income — tap a bar
13%
Graduation rate
Entered fall 2017 & 2018
19% typical
$20,073
Earnings 10 years on
Measured 2020 & 2021
$25,292 typical
Open admission
Acceptance rate
94% typical · not scored
Accredited by Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities
About

Located on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Lame Deer, Montana, Chief Dull Knife College is an open-admissions tribal community college renowned for its dedication to preserving Northern Cheyenne language, culture, and history. The institution offers accessible associate degrees and certificates, with strong programs in Cheyenne Studies, Allied Health, Business, and transfer-ready General Studies. Campus culture is deeply community-centered and supportive, providing an intimate learning environment shaped by traditional Cheyenne values and close faculty mentorship. A key distinctive feature is the college's status as a 1994 Land-Grant institution, which uniquely blends indigenous knowledge and language revitalization with contemporary academic and vocational training to serve both tribal members and the surrounding region.


Wikipedia:Chief Dull Knife College is a public tribal land-grant community college on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Lame Deer, Montana. It is an open-admission college with about 141 students. On average, more than half of its graduates move on to four-year colleges.

Location
Lame Deer, MT, 59043 · Rural campus
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Nearest airport from college
DEN · Denver
411 mi away
Cost & aid
Cost of attendance
These figures are federal data and may be out of date.
In-stateOut-of-state
Tuition & fees$1,960$1,960
Books & supplies$1,000$1,000
Cost of attendance$17,734$17,734 est.
Average net price$14,010Not published
Out-of-state prices
Tuition & fees$1,960
Books & supplies$1,000
Cost of attendance$17,734 est.
Average net priceNot published
In-state: $14,010
est. = the in-state cost of attendance with out-of-state tuition swapped in; no out-of-state figure is published.
Net price by family income · in-state students, 2023-24
$0–30k
$13,940
$48–75k
$14,361
Outcomes
Completion
Within 6 yrs
13%
Entered 2017–18
8 yrs after starting · first-time, full-time students
30% graduated · 14% transferred · 56% left or unknown · none still enrolled
Earnings · measured 2020 & 2021
6 yrs after entry$18,636
10 yrs after entry$20,073
Admissions

No admissions data available for this college.

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Student Body
Gender
Men 34%Women 66%
Who enrolls
Faculty ratio
13 : 1
Pell grant
33%
First-gen
47%
Family income
$6,953
Independent
55%
Age at entry
24.0
Part-time
56%
Race & ethnicity
White
2%
AI/AN
98%
Varsity sports

No data. This school isn't in the U.S. Department of Education's athletics (EADA) file, so we can't list its teams. That doesn't mean it has none.

Institutional
Resources
Endowment
$2M
Full-time faculty
100%
Faculty salary
$7,107/mo
Teaching spend
$20,591
per student
Federal loans
0%
Classification
Carnegie type
Tribal college
Undergraduate profile
Two-year, mixed part/full-time

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