2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Services in South Dakota

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Human Services is the 74th most popular major in the country with 13,238 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, human services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,839 and had an average of $30,553 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 96 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,014 and $12,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 30 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,795 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in South Dakota” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in human services. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their human services program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in South Dakota

The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota master’s degree human services students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Services in South Dakota

1

University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota

#5 overall quality in South Dakota

$62,759 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of South Dakota. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in South Dakota list. Vermillion, South Dakota is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s human services degrees to 30 students in 2020-2021.

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 Human Services at USD

2

Sinte Gleska University
Mission, South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Sinte Gleska University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in South Dakota list. Sinte Gleska University is located in Mission, South Dakota and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 masters’s human services degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Human Services at Sinte Gleska University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Services in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Services

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

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