A Guide to U.S. Master's Degree Programs for International Students
Graduate Education in Minnesota
Minnesota is home to more than 200 public and private postsecondary institutions with 36 awarding graduate degrees and enrolling more than 46,000 graduate students each year. Of the 8,700 international and foreign-born students enroll at Minnesota postsecondary institutions, 3,000 were enrolled in graduate school with most attending the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, the state's leading academic research institution.
About Minnesota
Minnesota is in the north central United States near the geographic center of North America, and is 411 miles (575 kilometers) west of Chicago, borders Lake Superior and is the starting point of the Mississippi River. Minnesota gets its name from the Native American (Sioux) word minisota, meaning "water that reflects the sky."
The state is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes," but Minnesota actually has more than 11,000 natural lakes over 10 acres in size and over 6,000 rivers and streams. With more than 90,000 miles (144,500 kilometers) of shoreline, Minnesota has more shoreline than the states of California, Florida and Hawaii combined.
Minnesota is also known as the “North Star State,” a translation of the French inscription on the state seal, L'Etoile du Nord.
Minneapolis and St. Paul are Minnesota’s largest cities and are often referred to collectively as the “Twin Cities” since they border each other. The Twin Cities metropolitan area, including suburbs, is the sixteenth largest metropolitan area in the United States. More than half of Minnesota’s population lives in the Twin Cities area.
