2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science in South Dakota

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in South Dakota” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science is the 93rd most popular major in the country with 18,901 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, clinical/medical laboratory science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,036 and had an average of $19,885 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 126 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,808 and $24,228 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 47 clinical/medical laboratory science 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 Science Major in South Dakota” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in clinical/medical laboratory science. That schools that top this list have a program in clinical/medical laboratory science 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 an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in South Dakota

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

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science in South Dakota

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Western Dakota Technical Institute
Rapid City, South Dakota

#13 overall quality in South Dakota

$40,177 Average Early-Career Earnings

$28,184 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Dakota Technical Institute. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in South Dakota list. This small school is located in Rapid City, South Dakota, and it awarded 16 associates’s clinical laboratory science degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Western Dakota Tech Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science Report

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Lake Area Technical Institute
Watertown, South Dakota

#4 overall quality in South Dakota

$36,262 Average Early-Career Earnings

$13,500 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lake Area Technical Institute. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in South Dakota. LATI is a small school located in Watertown, South Dakota that handed out 17 associates’s clinical laboratory science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science at Lake Area Technical Institute

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Mitchell Technical College
Mitchell, South Dakota

#7 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mitchell Technical College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in South Dakota. Mitchell Technical College is a small public school situated in Mitchell, South Dakota. It awarded 9 associates’s clinical laboratory science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science at Mitchell Tech

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• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science

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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