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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in South Dakota” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 29,810 people earned their degree in general education, making the major the 31st most popular in the United States.

Across South Dakota, there were 88 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 87 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,795 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in South Dakota” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general education. That schools that top this list have a program in general education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota master’s degree general education students.

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

1

Augustana University
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

#3 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Augustana University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in South Dakota. Sioux Falls, South Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s general education degrees to 87 students 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%.

Read full report on General Education at Augustana Sioux Falls

2

Sinte Gleska University
Mission, South Dakota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, Sinte Gleska University landed the #2 spot on the list. Sinte Gleska University is a small school located in Mission, South Dakota that handed out 0 masters’s general education degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Education at Sinte Gleska University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education

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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