2023 Most Well Attended Education Major in South Dakota for a Master’s

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Education Major in South Dakota for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Education is the 41st most popular major in the country with 29,810 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Education Major in South Dakota for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general education. To top this list, a school must have a successful general education program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Education Major in South Dakota for a Master’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular 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 Most Well Attended Education Major in South Dakota for a Master’s list. Located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 87 diplomas to qualified masters’s education students 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%.

Full Augustana Sioux Falls General Education Report

2

Sinte Gleska University
Mission, South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Sinte Gleska University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Education Major in South Dakota for a Master’s 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

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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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