2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Dental Assisting/Assistant in South Dakota

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Dental Assisting Major in South Dakota” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Dental Assisting/Assistant is the 330th most popular major in the country with 17,223 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across South Dakota, there were 42 dental assisting/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 6 dental assisting/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,091 and $23,788 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Dental Assisting Major in South Dakota” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in dental assisting/assistant. That schools that top this list have a program in dental assisting/assistant in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Dental Assisting Major in South Dakota” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Dental Assisting Major in South Dakota

The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota associate degree dental assisting students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Dental Assisting/Assistant in South Dakota

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Lake Area Technical Institute
Watertown, South Dakota

#4 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lake Area Technical Institute. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Dental Assisting Major in South Dakota list. Located in Watertown, South Dakota, this small public school awarded 6 diplomas to qualified associates’s dental assisting students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Dental Assisting/Assistant at Lake Area Technical Institute

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Dental Assisting/Assistant in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Dental Assisting/Assistant

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.