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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in South Dakota” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
General Visual & Performing Arts is the 116th most popular major in the country with 6,355 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general visual and performing arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $25,134 and had an average of $26,019 in loans still to pay off.
Across South Dakota, there were 7 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,663 and $32,117 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in South Dakota” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in general visual and performing arts. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general visual and performing arts.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in South Dakota
The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota bachelor’s degree visual arts students.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, Dakota Wesleyan University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Mitchell, South Dakota, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s visual arts 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%.
Read full report on General Visual & Performing Arts at Dakota Wesleyan University
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota State University landed the #2 spot on the list. South Dakota State is a fairly large public school situated in Brookings, South Dakota. It awarded 0 bachelors’s visual arts 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%.
Full South Dakota State General Visual & Performing Arts Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, Mount Marty University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Yankton, South Dakota, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s visual arts students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.3% 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%.
Full Mount Marty General Visual & Performing Arts Report
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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
- *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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