| New Registrants | |||||||
| State Support Students - Fall 1996 Headcount | |||||||
| BHSU | DSU | NSU | SDSMT | SDSU | USD | System | |
| First Time Freshmen | 451 | 203 | 571 | 372 | 1,496 | 899 | 3,992 |
| First Time Transfer | 356 | 106 | 124 | 124 | 445 | 412 | 1,567 |
| Readmit After Absence | 79 | 19 | 109 | 64 | 161 | 240 | 672 |
| Total New Undergraduate | 886 | 328 | 804 | 560 | 2,102 | 1,551 | 6,231 |
| Graduate Transfers | 13 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| First Professional Transfers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Transfer Enrollments | |||||||
| State Support - Fall 1996 | |||||||
| Transfer from: | Transfer to: | ||||||
| BHSU | DSU | NSU | SDSMT | SDSU | USD | Total | |
| S.D. Public Institutions | |||||||
| BHSU | 0 | 6 | 3 | 22 | 24 | 21 | 76 |
| DSU | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 6 | 33 |
| NSU | 15 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 41 | 11 | 82 |
| SDSMT | 29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 27 | 94 |
| SDSU | 34 | 19 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 51 | 132 |
| USD | 25 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 39 | 0 | 95 |
| SD Private Institutions | |||||||
| Augustana College | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 27 |
| Dakota Wesleyan University | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 15 |
| Huron University | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 21 |
| Kilian Community College | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| Mount Marty College | 6 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 23 | 48 |
| National College | 14 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 20 |
| Oglala Lakota College | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| Presentation College | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 13 |
| Sinte Gleska University | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| University of Sioux Falls | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 24 |
| Technical Institutions | |||||||
| Lake Area Technical Institute | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 15 | 31 |
| Mitchell Technical Institute | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Southeast Technical Institute | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 20 |
| Western Dakota Technical Inst. | 10 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 17 |
| 20 or More Transfers | |||||||
| Chadron State College (NE) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 20 |
| Southwest State Univ. (MN) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 20 |
| Western Iowa Tech. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 25 |
| Worthington Comm. Coll. (MN) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 21 |
| Other Institutions | 186 | 32 | 70 | 80 | 250 | 195 | 813 |
| Total Transfers | 356 | 106 | 140 | 137 | 509 | 427 | 1,675 |