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2023 Most Focused Colleges for Teacher Education in South Dakota

1 Ranked Colleges

12 Degrees Awarded

$30,900 Avg Cost*

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in South Dakota” ranking.

In 2020-2021, 9,949 people earned their degree in teacher education, making the major the 97th most popular in the United States.

Across South Dakota, there were 12 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in teacher education.

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Schools Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in South Dakota

The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota teacher education students.

Top 1 Most Focused Colleges for Teacher Education in South Dakota

Augustana University
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

#3 overall quality in South Dakota

$40,631 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,215 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Augustana University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in South Dakota. Augustana University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 12 ’s 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%.

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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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