2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in South Dakota

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Accounting is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 7th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 73,172 degrees were awarded to students with this major.

Across South Dakota, there were 216 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 37 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,795 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in South Dakota” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in accounting. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in accounting.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in South Dakota

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in South Dakota”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting in South Dakota

1

University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota

#5 overall quality in South Dakota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Dakota landed the #1 spot on the list. University of South Dakota is located in Vermillion, South Dakota and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 31 masters’s accounting degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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Augustana University
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

#3 overall quality in South Dakota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, Augustana University landed the #2 spot on the list. Augustana University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 6 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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.

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