2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in South Dakota

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in South Dakota” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 10,547 people earned their degree in secondary education, making the major the 84th most popular in the United States.

Across South Dakota, there were 67 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 43 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,795 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in South Dakota” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in secondary education. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their secondary education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in South Dakota

1

Black Hills State University
Spearfish, South Dakota

#12 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Black Hills State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in South Dakota list. Located in Spearfish, South Dakota, this small public school awarded 28 degrees to qualified masters’s secondary teaching students in 2020-2021.

Full Black Hills State University Secondary Education Report

2

University of Sioux Falls
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

#8 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Sioux Falls. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in South Dakota list. University of Sioux Falls is a private not-for-profit institution located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 14 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Secondary Education at University of Sioux Falls

3

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 #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in South Dakota list. University of South Dakota is a public institution located in Vermillion, South Dakota. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Secondary Education at University of South Dakota

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