• Founded 1967, free tuition and eight career programs
• Today over 35 career programs
• Tuition and fees (2007-2008):
• $4,586 Total number students served 3,247

• Full-year equivalent enrollment 1,601
• Percent male: 46.7%
• Percent female: 53.3%
• Percent of diverse students: 14.0%
• Degrees offered: Associate in Applied Science, diplomas, certificates
• Opened a Multicultural Student Center on campus: 2007
• Largest programs: practical nursing, construction electrician, medical assistant
• Unique programs: broadcast captioning, judicial reporting, occupational therapy assistant, golf course grounds management, health information technology, multimedia and gaming information technology
• Member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system and the North Central Association
• Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.

Improved access for students of diversity and under-represented popluations

• Enrollment of students who are ethnically or culturally diverse has increased 8 percent since 2000
• Fourteen percent of Anoka Technical College’s student body is ethnically and culturally diverse. This diverse population is proportionately larger than the diverse population within the primary service area of the college
• The incorporation of monthly Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED) workshops, helps to increase faculty, staff and student awareness of equity issues in the college and in the community
• The number of students of color who attend a Minnesota State College or University (MnSCU) has grown 80 percent. Students of color in the MnSCU system now make up 12.8 percent of the total student body, up from 6.6 percent in 1995. The system serves more students of color than any other higher education provider in Minnesota.

Anoka Technical College Foundation facts

• Created in 1987

Academic year 2007-08

• $1500 Diversity program
• $30,000 Robotic training cell
• $2680 Welding plasma cutter
• $5100 Occupational therapy assistant program equipment
• $8,000 Electronic program
• $60,000 for equipment in horticulture, electronics, practical nursing and automotive programs
• $6,584 in crisis grants
• 132 scholarships
• $107,400 in scholarship money
• $235,705 raised in cash, pledges and in-kind donations

Member of the Minnesota State Colleges & Universities system.
Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission - a Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.