2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religion/Religious Studies in South Dakota

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In 2020-2021, 3,626 people earned their degree in religion/religious studies, making the major the 189th most popular in the United States.

Across South Dakota, there were 5 religion/religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 religion/religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,663 and $32,117 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in South Dakota” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in religion/religious studies. That schools that top this list have a program in religion/religious studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religion/Religious Studies in South Dakota

1

Augustana University
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

#3 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Augustana University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in South Dakota. Augustana University is located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 bachelors’s religion 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 more about Religion/Religious Studies at Augustana Sioux Falls

2

Dakota Wesleyan University
Mitchell, South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dakota Wesleyan University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in South Dakota list. Dakota Wesleyan University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Mitchell, South Dakota. It awarded 0 bachelors’s religion degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 5.0% 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 more about Religion/Religious Studies at Dakota Wesleyan University

2

Mount Marty University
Yankton, South Dakota

#2 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mount Marty University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in South Dakota. Mount Marty University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Yankton, South Dakota. It awarded 0 bachelors’s religion degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Religion/Religious Studies at Mount Marty 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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