2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education 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 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 41st most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, general education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $48,719 and had an average of $23,394 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 88 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,320 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 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

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

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

$51,320 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Augustana University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Education Major in South Dakota list. Augustana Sioux Falls is a small school located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota that handed out 87 masters’s education degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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 Education at Augustana University

2

Sinte Gleska University
Mission, South Dakota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on 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 education degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about 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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