2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Social Sciences in South Dakota

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in South Dakota” ranking is part of that endeavor.

With 205,984 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, social sciences is the 5th most popular major in the United States. In 2019-2020, social sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,262 and had an average of $23,306 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 268 social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,628 and $25,967 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,795 and $0 respectively.

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

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in South Dakota

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Social Sciences in South Dakota

1

South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota

#1 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in South Dakota list. South Dakota State is a fairly large school located in Brookings, South Dakota that handed out 21 masters’s social sciences 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 University Social Sciences Report

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University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota

#5 overall quality in South Dakota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Dakota landed the #2 spot on the list. USD is located in Vermillion, South Dakota and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 50 masters’s social sciences degrees to qualified students.

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%.

Read more about Social Sciences at University of South Dakota

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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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