2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Educational Leadership & Administration in South Dakota

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General Educational Leadership & Administration is the 32nd most popular major in the country with 32,837 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across South Dakota, there were 98 general educational leadership and administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 75 general educational leadership and administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,795 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Educational Leadership and Administration Major in South Dakota” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general educational leadership and administration. That schools that top this list have a program in general educational leadership and administration in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Educational Leadership and Administration Major in South Dakota

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

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Educational Leadership & Administration in South Dakota

1

University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota

#5 overall quality in South Dakota

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Educational Leadership and Administration 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 a public institution located in Vermillion, South Dakota. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 63 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Educational Leadership & Administration at University of South Dakota

2

University of Sioux Falls
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

#8 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Sioux Falls. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Educational Leadership and Administration Major in South Dakota. This small school is located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and it awarded 11 masters’s educational leadership and administration degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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 more about General Educational Leadership & Administration at University of Sioux Falls

3

South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota

#1 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Dakota State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Educational Leadership and Administration Major in South Dakota. Brookings, South Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s educational leadership and administration degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Educational Leadership & Administration at South Dakota State University

4

Dakota Wesleyan University
Mitchell, South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dakota Wesleyan University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Educational Leadership and Administration Major in South Dakota list. This small school is located in Mitchell, South Dakota, and it awarded 0 masters’s educational leadership and administration degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 5.0% 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 General Educational Leadership & Administration at Dakota Wesleyan University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Educational Leadership & Administration in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Educational Leadership & Administration

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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