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

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In 2020-2021, 3,823 people earned their degree in general physical sciences, making the major the 144th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, general physical sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $26,561 and had an average of $12,761 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 1 general physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 general physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,663 and $32,117 respectively.

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

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

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

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

1

Dakota State University
Madison, South Dakota

#6 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dakota State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Science Major in South Dakota list. Dakota State University is a small school located in Madison, South Dakota that handed out 1 bachelors’s physical science degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Black Hills State University
Spearfish, South Dakota

#12 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Black Hills State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Science Major in South Dakota. Black Hills State University is a public institution located in Spearfish, South Dakota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Physical Sciences in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Physical Sciences

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.