2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Technician Major in South Dakota

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Technician Major in South Dakota” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Laboratory Technician is the 193rd most popular major in the country with 4,185 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across South Dakota, there were 47 laboratory technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 47 laboratory technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,091 and $23,788 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Technician Major in South Dakota” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in laboratory technician. That schools that top this list have a program in laboratory technician in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Technician Major in South Dakota

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Technician Major in South Dakota”.

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Laboratory Technician in South Dakota

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Western Dakota Technical Institute
Rapid City, South Dakota

#13 overall quality in South Dakota

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Technician Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Dakota Technical Institute landed the #1 spot on the list. Western Dakota Technical Institute is a small public school situated in Rapid City, South Dakota. It awarded 16 associates’s clinical laboratory technician degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Laboratory Technician at Western Dakota Technical Institute

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Lake Area Technical Institute
Watertown, South Dakota

#4 overall quality in South Dakota

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Technician Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, Lake Area Technical Institute landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Watertown, South Dakota, and it awarded 17 associates’s clinical laboratory technician degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Lake Area Technical Institute Laboratory Technician Report

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Mitchell Technical College
Mitchell, South Dakota

#7 overall quality in South Dakota

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Technician Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, Mitchell Technical College landed the #3 spot on the list. Mitchell Tech is located in Mitchell, South Dakota and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 associates’s clinical laboratory technician degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Laboratory Technician at Mitchell Tech

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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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