2024 Best Economics Bachelor's Degree Schools in South Dakota

If you pursue a bachelor's degree in economics, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #15 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

In 2024, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Economics Bachelor's Degree Schools in South Dakota ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 34 bachelor's degrees in economics during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Bachelor’s Degree Schools List

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to economics students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other economics students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt economics students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized economics related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for economics students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Economics Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Economics Bachelor's Degree Schools in South Dakota list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Economics in South Dakota

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in economics.

Top South Dakota Schools for a Bachelor's in Economics

1

South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD

18 Annual Graduates

$38,087 Median Starting Salary

$26,062 Median Student Debt

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in economics needs to check out South Dakota State University. Located in the remote town of Brookings, South Dakota State is a public university with a large student population.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the economics program report average early career wages of $38,087.

More information about a bachelor’s in economics from South Dakota State University

2

University of South Dakota
Vermillion, SD

13 Annual Graduates

$20,819 Median Student Debt

University of South Dakota is a wonderful decision for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in economics. USD is a medium-sized public university located in the distant town of Vermillion.More information about a bachelor’s in economics from University of South Dakota

Best Economics Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Economics Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	228	333
Minnesota	215	778
Iowa	197	307
Kansas	184	318
Nebraska	180	95
North Dakota	149	21

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Rankings in Majors Related to Economics

Economics is one of 13 different types of Social Sciences programs to choose from.

Economics Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Economics	34

Majors Similar to Economics

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Sociology	75
Political Science & Government	66
General Social Sciences	23
Geography & Cartography	18
Anthropology	13

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to pixabay. More about our data sources and methodologies.