2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in South Dakota

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in South Dakota” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 29,840 people earned their degree in general health services/allied health/health sciences, making the major the 33rd most popular in the United States.

Across South Dakota, there were 136 general health services/allied health/health sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 97 general health services/allied health/health sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,663 and $32,117 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in South Dakota” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general health services/allied health/health sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in general health services/allied health/health sciences 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in South Dakota

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in South Dakota”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences in South Dakota

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University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota

#5 overall quality in South Dakota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Dakota landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Vermillion, South Dakota, and it awarded 96 bachelors’s health 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%.

Read more about General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences at USD

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Presentation College
Aberdeen, South Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Presentation College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in South Dakota. Presentation College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Aberdeen, South Dakota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences at Presentation College

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences

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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Sandra M. Palumbo.