2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in South Dakota

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Visual & Performing Arts is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 10th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 149,215 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, visual and performing arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $26,700 and had an average of $25,051 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 216 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,047 and $29,000 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 6 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,091 and $23,788 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in South Dakota” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in visual and performing arts. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in visual and performing arts.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in South Dakota

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in South Dakota”.

Top 5 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in South Dakota

1

Oglala Lakota College
Kyle, South Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oglala Lakota College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in South Dakota. This small school is located in Kyle, South Dakota, and it awarded 3 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Oglala Lakota College

2

University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota

#5 overall quality in South Dakota

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Dakota landed the #2 spot on the list. University of South Dakota is a public institution located in Vermillion, South Dakota. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 3 associates’s degrees 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%.

Full University of South Dakota Visual & Performing Arts Report

3

Sinte Gleska University
Mission, South Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Sinte Gleska University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in South Dakota. Located in Mission, South Dakota, this small public school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified associates’s visual and performing arts students in 2020-2021.

Full Sinte Gleska University Visual & Performing Arts Report

3

Northern State University
Aberdeen, South Dakota

#11 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northern State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in South Dakota. Located in Aberdeen, South Dakota, this small public school awarded 17 diplomas to qualified associates’s visual and performing arts students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Northern State University

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts

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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