by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ecology Major in South Dakota” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology is the 103rd most popular major in the country with 7,247 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, ecology, evolution and systematics biology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,579 and had an average of $23,052 in loans still to pay off.
Across South Dakota, there were 2 ecology, evolution and systematics biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 ecology, evolution and systematics biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,663 and $32,117 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in ecology, evolution and systematics biology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ecology Major in South Dakota” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ecology Major in South Dakota”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ecology Major in South Dakota list. Northern State University is a small public school situated in Aberdeen, South Dakota. It awarded 2 bachelors’s ecology degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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