2023 Best General Education Colleges for Veterans in South Dakota
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Ranked Colleges
88
Degrees Awarded
$30,900
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in South Dakota for Education” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general education programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general education program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in South Dakota for Education” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in South Dakota for Education
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in South Dakota for Education”.
Top 1 Best General Education Colleges for Veterans 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 Most Veteran Friendly in South Dakota for Education. Sioux Falls, South Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s education degrees to 87 students in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our south dakota vets studying education list, Augustana Sioux Falls has also earned the #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] rank in our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 27 of the 2,019 students enrolled at Augustana University were GI Bill® students, of which 15 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $10,930. During this same period, 5 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Augustana University does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Augustana University]](/colleges/augustana-college-south-dakota/student-life/veterans/)
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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