2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Sciences in South Dakota

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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in South Dakota” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 2,214 people earned their degree in natural sciences, making the major the 208th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, natural sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $25,745 and had an average of $18,648 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 4 natural sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 natural sciences 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 Natural Sciences Major in South Dakota” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in natural sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in natural sciences.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in South Dakota

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Sciences in South Dakota

1

Oglala Lakota College
Kyle, South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oglala Lakota College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in South Dakota list. Oglala Lakota College is a small public school situated in Kyle, South Dakota. It awarded 3 bachelors’s natural sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Oglala Lakota College Natural Sciences Report

2

Augustana University
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

#3 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Augustana University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in South Dakota list. Augustana Sioux Falls is located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s natural sciences degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%.

Read full report on Natural Sciences at Augustana Sioux Falls

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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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