2024 Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools in South Dakota

If you plan on majoring in community health and preventive medicine, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #281 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in South Dakota to determine which ones were the best for community health and preventive medicine students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 32 degrees in community health and preventive medicine to qualified students.

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Pick Your Community Health and Preventive Medicine Degree Level

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools in South Dakota ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision. More interested in schools in a specific area of the country? Filter this list by region or state.

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Best Schools for Community Health and Preventive Medicine in South Dakota

The schools below may not offer all types of community health and preventive medicine degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.

Top South Dakota Schools in Community Health and Preventive Medicine

1

University of South Dakota
Vermillion, SD

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

It's difficult to beat University of South Dakota if you wish to pursue a degree in community health and preventive medicine. Located in the distant town of Vermillion, USD is a public university with a medium-sized student population.More information about a degree in community health and preventive medicine from University of South Dakota

2

South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD

Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type

22.2% Growth in Graduates

South Dakota State University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in community health and preventive medicine. South Dakota State is a large public university located in the town of Brookings.More information about a degree in community health and preventive medicine from South Dakota State University

Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Minnesota	742	39
Missouri	693	12
Iowa	648	2
Kansas	599	1
North Dakota	416	0

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Rankings in Majors Related to Community Health and Preventive Medicine

One of 12 majors within the Public Health area of study, Community Health and Preventive Medicine has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Community Health and Preventive Medicine

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Public Health	11
Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene	2

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Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Article 25 Flickr.

More about our data sources and methodologies.