Bay Mills Community College is a two-year tribal college chartered by the federally recognized Bay Mills Indian Community of Michigan. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching classifies the school in the "very small university" category, reporting its enrollment as 432 full- and part-time students. The students come primarily from Michigan’s eastern Upper Peninsula and are 60% Native American. BMCC is a member of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), a community of tribally and federally chartered institutions working to strengthen tribal nations.