by our College Data Analytics Team
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 “Most Well Attended Nursing Major in South Dakota for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 322,592 nursing students received their degree, making the major the 3rd most popular in the country. In 2019-2020, nursing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $70,916 and had an average of $25,426 in loans still to pay off.
Across South Dakota, there were 1,024 nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,704 and $38,228 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 44 nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,795 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Nursing Major in South Dakota for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in nursing. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular nursing programs in the United States.
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The nursing school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Well Attended Nursing Major in South Dakota for a Master’s”.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Nursing Major in South Dakota for a Master’s”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mount Marty University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Nursing Major in South Dakota for a Master’s list. Yankton, South Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s nursing degrees to 24 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Nursing Major in South Dakota for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota State University landed the #2 spot on the list. South Dakota State University is a fairly large school located in Brookings, South Dakota that handed out 11 masters’s nursing degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Nursing at South Dakota State University
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Nursing Major in South Dakota for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Presentation College landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Aberdeen, South Dakota, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 9 diplomas to qualified masters’s nursing students in 2020-2021.
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