2022 Best Value Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Making $75-$110k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Social Work is the 12th most popular major in the country with 57,618 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, social work graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $36,459 and had an average of $30,084 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 16 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,200 and $24,798 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent social work programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the social work program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Social Work (Income $75-$110k) in South Dakota

#1

University of Sioux Falls

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$21,476 Average Net Price

$31,423 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Sioux Falls landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Sioux Falls is located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 9 bachelors’s social work degrees to qualified students.

University of Sioux Falls also took the #1 spot in our “Best Social Work Bachelor’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” ranking. It costs about $21,476 for South Dakota Bachelor’s Degree Social Work students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend University of Sioux Falls.

The low student loan default rate of 4.2% 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 Social Work at University of Sioux Falls

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Social Work (Income $75-$110k) in the Plains States Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Social Work (Income $75-$110k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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