2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service in South Dakota

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Public Administration & Social Service is the 14th most popular major in the country with 98,583 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, public administration and social service graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $40,520 and had an average of $27,642 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 173 public administration and social service graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,516 and $21,260 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 50 public administration and social service graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,795 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in South Dakota” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in public administration and social service. That schools that top this list have a program in public administration and social service in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in South Dakota

The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota master’s degree public administration & social service students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service in South Dakota

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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 Public Administration & Social Service Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Dakota landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Vermillion, South Dakota, and it awarded 50 masters’s public administration and social service degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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 full report on Public Administration & Social Service at University of South Dakota

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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 Public Administration & Social Service Major in South Dakota list. Sinte Gleska University is a public institution located in Mission, South Dakota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Sinte Gleska University Public Administration & Social Service Report

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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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