2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Biological & Biomedical Sciences in South Dakota

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In 2020-2021, 177,778 biological and biomedical sciences students received their degree, making the major the 9th most popular in the country. In 2019-2020, biological and biomedical sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,469 and had an average of $23,170 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 434 biological and biomedical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,295 and $23,548 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 25 biological and biomedical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,091 and $23,788 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological & Biomedical Sciences Major in South Dakota” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in biological and biomedical sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in biological and biomedical sciences.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological & Biomedical Sciences Major in South Dakota

The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota associate degree biological & biomedical sciences students.

Top 5 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Biological & Biomedical Sciences in South Dakota

1

Black Hills State University
Spearfish, South Dakota

#12 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Black Hills State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological & Biomedical Sciences Major in South Dakota list. Spearfish, South Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s biological and biomedical sciences degrees to 21 students in 2020-2021.

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2

Oglala Lakota College
Kyle, South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oglala Lakota College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological & Biomedical Sciences Major in South Dakota list. Oglala Lakota College is a small public school situated in Kyle, South Dakota. It awarded 1 associates’s biological and biomedical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

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3

Presentation College
Aberdeen, South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Presentation College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological & Biomedical Sciences Major in South Dakota list. Presentation College is located in Aberdeen, South Dakota and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 associates’s biological and biomedical sciences degrees to qualified students.

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4

Northern State University
Aberdeen, South Dakota

#11 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological & Biomedical Sciences Major in South Dakota list. This small school is located in Aberdeen, South Dakota, and it awarded 2 associates’s biological and biomedical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Northern State University Biological & Biomedical Sciences Report

5

Sinte Gleska University
Mission, South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Sinte Gleska University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological & Biomedical Sciences Major in South Dakota list. This small school is located in Mission, South Dakota, and it awarded 0 associates’s biological and biomedical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Biological & Biomedical Sciences in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Biological & Biomedical Sciences

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Kelly White.