Minneapolis Public Schools enroll 36,370 students in public primary and secondary schools. The district administers about one hundred public schools including forty-five elementary schools (including both K-5 schools and K-8 schools), seven middle schools, seven high schools, eight alternative schools, nineteen contract alternative schools, and a wide variety of special education services. With authority granted by the state legislature, the school board makes policy, selects the superintendent, and oversees the district's budget, curriculum, personnel, and facilities. Students speak ninety different languages at home and most school communications are printed in English, Hmong, Spanish, and Somali. The MPS is thoroughly dedicated to providing quality education to students, and assisting those who struggle with the work assigned.
Besides public schools, the city is home to 49 private schools and academies, with grade ranges as small as pre-kindergarten and kindergarten alone and as large as kindergarten straight through to grade 12. These schools are well-varied in focuses, sizes, religious affiliations and attributes, but all provide quality education to enrolled students. A list of these schools can be found at here
Minneapolis' collegiate scene is dominated by the main campus of the University of Minnesota where more than 50,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students attend twenty colleges, schools, and institutes. Created in 1851 as a preparatory school, the university is noted for engineering, applied mathematics, management, health, and economics and administers more than 140 research facilities. A Big Ten school and home of the Golden Gophers, the U of M is the fourth largest campus in the U.S. in terms of enrollment. Still, the U of M is not the only collegiate facility in Minneapolis: Minneapolis Community and Technical College, the private Dunwoody College of Technology, and Art Institutes International Minnesota provide career training. Augsburg College, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, North Central University, and University of St. Thomas are private four-year colleges. Capella University, Minnesota School of Professional Psychology, and Walden University are headquartered in Minneapolis.
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