2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in South Dakota

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In 2020-2021, 10,266 people earned their degree in communication and media studies, making the major the 82nd most popular in the United States.

Across South Dakota, there were 102 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 83 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,663 and $32,117 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in South Dakota” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communication and media studies. That schools that top this list have a program in communication and media studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in South Dakota

The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota bachelor’s degree media studies students.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in South Dakota

1

University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota

#5 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of South Dakota. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in South Dakota. Vermillion, South Dakota is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s media studies degrees to 60 students in 2020-2021.

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%.

Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at University of South Dakota

2

Black Hills State University
Spearfish, South Dakota

#12 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Black Hills State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in South Dakota. Black Hills State University is a small public school situated in Spearfish, South Dakota. It awarded 11 bachelors’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Black Hills State University Communication & Media Studies Report

3

University of Sioux Falls
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

#8 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Sioux Falls. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in South Dakota list. University of Sioux Falls is a private not-for-profit institution located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Sioux Falls Communication & Media Studies Report

4

Augustana University
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

#3 overall quality in South Dakota

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, Augustana University landed the #4 spot on the list. Augustana Sioux Falls is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It awarded 3 bachelors’s media studies 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%.

Full Augustana University Communication & Media Studies Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in the Plains States Region
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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.

Credits

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