2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Sustainability Science in South Dakota

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in South Dakota” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 3,005 people earned their degree in sustainability science, making the major the 176th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, sustainability science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,827 and had an average of $23,160 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 12 sustainability science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 sustainability science graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,795 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in South Dakota” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in sustainability science. That schools that top this list have a program in sustainability science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in South Dakota

The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota master’s degree sustainability science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Sustainability Science in South Dakota

1

Black Hills State University
Spearfish, South Dakota

#12 overall quality in South Dakota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, Black Hills State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Black Hills State University is a small public school situated in Spearfish, South Dakota. It awarded 5 masters’s sustainability science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Sustainability Science at Black Hills State University

2

University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota

#5 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of South Dakota. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sustainability Science Major in South Dakota. Vermillion, South Dakota is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s sustainability science degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of South Dakota Sustainability Science Report

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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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