Northwest Indian College

Bellingham, WA · Public · 629 undergrads · website ↗

Tribal college
No application fee
Open admission

Does anyone get out?

The point of starting here is finishing somewhere else. This is how often that happens.

23.6%

of students transfer to a four-year institution

What it costs

Household income	Avg net price / year
Under $30,000	$2,630
$30,000 – $48,000	$2,952
$48,000 – $75,000	$3,709
$75,000 – $110,000	$8,610
Over $110,000	—
All incomes (average)	$3,136

Sticker tuition and fees: $4,365 in-state — before aid, from the same earlier College Scorecard release as the net prices above.

These are averages. For an estimate for your family, use Northwest Indian College's own net price calculator — every college that takes federal student aid must publish one.

Net price calculator ↗

Other costs of attendance, 2025–26

The college's own estimate for a full-time undergraduate for the year, before aid, from the October 2026 College Scorecard. It is a newer year than the tuition and net prices above, so don't add the two together.

Housing and meals, on campus	$6,000
Housing and meals, off campus (not with family)	$17,700
Books and supplies	$528
Other expenses, on campus	$4,698
Other expenses, off campus	$4,698

Outcomes

Completion rate: 18%
Students with Pell grants: 52%
Earnings @ 10yr: $35,447
Median debt: —

Admission and teaching

SAT/ACT policy: Open admission
Application fee: None
Students per faculty member: 14 to 1
Faculty who are full-time: 49%

What students study

Business22%

Health & Nursing7%

Environmental Studies4%

Education2%

Earnings and debt by field of study

Median annual earnings of graduates who received federal student aid and were working, not studying: one year after completing (graduates of 2020–21 and 2021–22) and four years after (2017–18 and 2018–19), measured in 2022 and 2023 and shown in 2024 dollars. Median debt is federal Direct and Grad PLUS loans borrowed at this college by 2022–23 and 2023–24 graduates; it leaves out Parent PLUS and private loans. “National” is the median for the same field and credential across all US colleges.

Associate degrees (1)

Field of study	Degrees awarded 2023–24	Earnings, 1 yr after	Earnings, 4 yrs after	Median federal debt
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities	75	—	$47,925national $44,125	—

Bachelor's degrees (1)

Field of study	Degrees awarded 2023–24	Earnings, 1 yr after	Earnings, 4 yrs after	Median federal debt
Business Administration, Management and Operations	24	—	$58,804national $68,257	—

A dash means the Department of Education suppressed the figure because too few graduates were measured — not zero. 14 more programmes at this college have every figure suppressed and are not listed.

Best transfer rates elsewhere in WA

Cascadia CollegeBothell26.8%Seattle Central CollegeSeattle24.3%Bellevue CollegeBellevue23.7%Edmonds CollegeLynnwood21.4%Spokane Falls Community CollegeSpokane20.7%Tacoma Community CollegeTacoma20.4%

Contact and accreditation

Address: 2522 Kwina Rd, Bellingham, WA 98226-9217
Phone: (360) 676-2772
Institutional accreditor: Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Where would you transfer to?

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Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard. College Scorecard, October 2026 release: net price calculator link, mission flags and religious affiliation (2025–26), enrolment shares, test policy, SAT/ACT ranges and student-to-faculty ratio (fall 2024), cost-of-attendance components (2025–26), and earnings and debt by field of study. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics 2023–24 for the application fee and the IPEDS 2024 directory for the phone number. All are U.S. Department of Education data in the public domain. Transfer rate is the share of entrants transferring to a four-year institution; it is published for roughly a third of community colleges, and a blank means unpublished rather than zero. Which specific credits transfer is set by agreements between individual institutions and is not published nationally — confirm with both colleges before enrolling.

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