2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Physical Education Teaching & Coaching in South Dakota

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Physical Education Teaching & Coaching is the 104th most popular major in the country with 8,121 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across South Dakota, there were 44 physical education teaching and coaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 physical education teaching and coaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,795 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Education Teaching Major in South Dakota” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in physical education teaching and coaching. That schools that top this list have a program in physical education teaching and coaching 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 Physical Education Teaching Major in South Dakota

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Physical Education Teaching & Coaching in South Dakota

1

Mount Marty University
Yankton, South Dakota

#2 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mount Marty University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Education Teaching Major in South Dakota list. Mount Marty is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Yankton, South Dakota. It awarded 6 masters’s physical education teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.3% 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%.

Full Mount Marty University Physical Education Teaching & Coaching Report

2

University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota

#5 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of South Dakota. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Education Teaching Major in South Dakota list. USD is a medium-sized public school situated in Vermillion, South Dakota. It awarded 2 masters’s physical education teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Physical Education Teaching & Coaching at USD

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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.

Credits

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