by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Design Major in South Dakota for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Design & Applied Arts is the 36th most popular major in the country with 36,301 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, design and applied arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,426 and had an average of $25,481 in loans still to pay off.
Across South Dakota, there were 61 design and applied arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,721 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 51 design and applied arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,663 and $32,117 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Design Major in South Dakota for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in design and applied arts. To top this list, a school must have a successful design and applied arts program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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 “Most Well Attended Design Major in South Dakota for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota bachelor’s degree design students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Dakota State University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Design Major in South Dakota for a Bachelor’s. South Dakota State is a fairly large school located in Brookings, South Dakota that handed out 46 bachelors’s design degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 5 schools in the Most Well Attended Design Major in South Dakota for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Black Hills State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Black Hills State University is a public institution located in Spearfish, South Dakota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Design & Applied Arts at Black Hills State University
Out of the 5 schools in the Most Well Attended Design Major in South Dakota for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Northern State University is a small public school situated in Aberdeen, South Dakota. It awarded 1 bachelors’s design degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 5 schools in the Most Well Attended Design Major in South Dakota for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Dakota Wesleyan University landed the #4 spot on the list. Dakota Wesleyan University is a small school located in Mitchell, South Dakota that handed out 0 bachelors’s design degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Dakota Wesleyan University Design & Applied Arts Report
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