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by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in South Dakota” ranking.
Legal Professions is the 16th most popular major in the country with 61,055 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, legal professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $47,649 and had an average of $28,699 in loans still to pay off.
Across South Dakota, there were 81 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,989 and $37,107 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,663 and $32,117 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in South Dakota” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in legal professions. That schools that top this list have a program in legal professions 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in South Dakota” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in South Dakota”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Dakota State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in South Dakota. South Dakota State University is a fairly large school located in Brookings, South Dakota that handed out 0 bachelors’s legal professions degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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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