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unitid 174066 · Minneapolis, MN · public 4-year · city (large)

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Public university in Minnesota, U.S.

founded
1851
enrollment 2023
59,150
predominant degree
Bachelor's
motto
“Commune vinculum omnibus artibus”
Campus of University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Ben Franske · CC BY-SA 4.0

The University of Minnesota Twin Cities is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the flagship institution of the University of Minnesota System and is organized into 19 colleges, schools, and other major academic units. wikipedia rev 1361408724 ↗

scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years

The record

admission rate

80%

43rd pctl among public 4-years

undergraduates

31,855

95th pctl among public 4-years

Pell share

18%

undergrads on Pell grants

11th pctl among public 4-years

completion

85%

finish within 150% time

97th pctl among public 4-years

sticker cost / yr

$30,061

88th pctl among public 4-years

avg net price / yr

$16,778

after aid, aided students

77th pctl among public 4-years

median earnings, 10 yr

$69,020

after entry, Title IV students

90th pctl among public 4-years

median grad debt

$19,500

49th pctl among public 4-years

what families actually pay

Cost

Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.

Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort

Families earning under $30k paid $6,642 per year after aid.

Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).

Who enrolls, by family income

  • 0-30k
    16%
  • 30-48k
    11%
  • 48-75k
    15%
  • 75-110k
    19%
  • 110k+
    39%
Median family income
$76,029
First-generation students
19%
In-state tuition & fees
$17,214

earnings · debt · programs

Outcomes

Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid

Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.5× the median graduate debt.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.

What programs pay — top fields of study

programgradsearn 5 yrdebt
Computer Science.612$111,199$19,500
Psychology, General.531$57,656$20,674
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.455$66,786$20,500
Business Administration, Management and Operations.424$152,698—
Finance and Financial Management Services.339$102,887$21,500
Biology, General.332$70,348$21,218
Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences.310$68,815$22,500
Economics.256$83,564$21,500
Marketing.239$90,462$22,750
Medicine.220$205,382—
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.208$60,465—
Education, Other.206$70,349$19,625

— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.

annual scorecard files, 1996–2026

Trajectory

Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.

Admission rate

Price per year

  • sticker
  • net

Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry

Undergraduates

wikidata · 7,784 people recorded

Memory

Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.

Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.

Wikipedia attention

monthly article views since 2015

most recorded occupationsresearcher (1,376) · university teacher (821) · basketball player (573) · politician (459) · economist (316) · American football player (260) · writer (212) · ice hockey player (203)

Nobel laureates who studied here

  • Arthur Holly Compton Physics 1927
  • Ernest Lawrence Physics 1939
  • Walter Houser Brattain Physics 1956
  • Melvin Calvin Chemistry 1961
  • Norman Borlaug Peace 1970
  • Edward B. Lewis Medicine 1995
  • Louis Ignarro Medicine 1998
  • Daniel McFadden Economics 2000
  • Lars Peter Hansen Economics 2013

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built 2026-07-17

Provenance

  • U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
  • Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
  • Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
  • Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
  • Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
  • Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1361408724), CC BY-SA 4.0.