by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Science Major in South Dakota” ranking.
In 2020-2021, 35,945 people earned their degree in health sciences and services, making the major the 34th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, health sciences and services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,887 and had an average of $24,736 in loans still to pay off.
Across South Dakota, there were 136 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,522 and $23,028 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 29 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,091 and $23,788 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Science Major in South Dakota” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in health sciences and services. That schools that top this list have a program in health sciences and services in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Science Major in South Dakota” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota associate degree health science students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Dakota Technical Institute. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Science Major in South Dakota. Western Dakota Tech is a small public school situated in Rapid City, South Dakota. It awarded 17 associates’s health science degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Science Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, Southeast Technical College landed the #2 spot on the list. Sioux Falls, South Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s health science degrees to 12 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.9% 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%.
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