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

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In 2020-2021, 22,254 people earned their degree in natural resources conservation, making the major the 49th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, natural resources conservation graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,963 and had an average of $23,098 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 39 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,663 and $32,117 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in South Dakota” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in natural resources conservation. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their natural resources conservation program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in South Dakota”.

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

1

Sinte Gleska University
Mission, South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Sinte Gleska University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in South Dakota list. This small school is located in Mission, South Dakota, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s conservation degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Natural Resources Conservation at Sinte Gleska University

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South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota

#1 overall quality in South Dakota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conservation Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota State University landed the #2 spot on the list. South Dakota State University is a fairly large school located in Brookings, South Dakota that handed out 16 bachelors’s conservation degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full South Dakota State Natural Resources Conservation Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Lynn Betts.