2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Legal Professions in South Dakota

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In 2020-2021, 61,055 people earned their degree in legal professions, making the major the 16th most popular in the United States. 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.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in South Dakota for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in legal professions. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in legal professions.

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Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in South Dakota for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota bachelor’s degree legal professions students.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Legal Professions in South Dakota

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South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota

#1 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in South Dakota for a Bachelor’s list. Brookings, South Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s legal professions degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Legal Professions at South Dakota State University

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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.

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