by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual began producing its annual Best Quality Schools rankings as a means to assist students in finding top-quality graduate colleges and universities that are invested in preparing their students for their future endeavors. Our methodology places a high weight on things such as post-graduation wages, time to graduate, and student-per-faculty ratio. Post-graduation debt, faculty and staff diversity, and other factors are also taken into account.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., University of South Dakota landed the #249 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota, USD came in at #2.
USD was ranked #434 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
In addition, USD took the #4 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in South Dakota.
The total graduate student population at USD is made up of 60.3% women and 39.7% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at USD, around 11.0% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. Americans aren't the only ones who appreciate the graduate programs at USD. Around 4.3% of graduate students are international. For more details on graduate school diversity at the school, check out the chart below. If you click on it, you'll be taken to a page with more details.
The average graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $6,123 | $11,773 |
| Fees | $995 | $995 |
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their master's degree at USD is $58,369. That's on par with the nationwide average of $58,425.
Doctorate degree recipients from USD earn an average salary of $63,993 during the early years of their career. When comparing to other doctorate degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 15% lower than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of University of South Dakota.
Contact details for USD are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 414 E Clark St, Vermillion, SD 57069-2390 |
| Phone: | 605-658-6200 |
| Website: | https://www.usd.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/UniversityofSouthDakota |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/UniversitySD |
Around 50.8% of USD graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 40.0% of grad students took all of their classes online.
The only degree programs listed here are those in which master’s degrees were awarded in 2020-2021.
Just like the master’s degree programs, only programs that had doctorate degrees awarded in 2020-2021 are shown here.
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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