2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ethnic Studies in South Dakota

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Ethnic Studies is the 99th most popular major in the country with 9,231 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, ethnic studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,818 and had an average of $22,901 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 56 ethnic studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 ethnic studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,663 and $32,117 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in South Dakota” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in ethnic studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in ethnic studies.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in South Dakota

The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota bachelor’s degree ethnic studies students.

Top 5 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ethnic Studies in South Dakota

1

Oglala Lakota College
Kyle, South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oglala Lakota College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in South Dakota list. Oglala Lakota College is a small school located in Kyle, South Dakota that handed out 12 bachelors’s ethnic studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Ethnic Studies at Oglala Lakota College

2

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 #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in South Dakota list. BHSU is a small public school situated in Spearfish, South Dakota. It awarded 3 bachelors’s ethnic studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Full BHSU Ethnic Studies Report

3

University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota

#5 overall quality in South Dakota

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Dakota landed the #3 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Vermillion, South Dakota, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s ethnic studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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 USD Ethnic Studies Report

4

South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota

#1 overall quality in South Dakota

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota State University landed the #4 spot on the list. South Dakota State University is a fairly large school located in Brookings, South Dakota that handed out 9 bachelors’s ethnic studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Ethnic Studies at South Dakota State University

4

Sinte Gleska University
Mission, South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Sinte Gleska University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in South Dakota list. Located in Mission, South Dakota, this small public school handed out 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s ethnic studies students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Ethnic Studies at Sinte Gleska University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ethnic Studies in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ethnic Studies

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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