2023 Most Popular 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.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in South Dakota for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in visual and performing arts. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular visual and performing arts programs in the United States.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in South Dakota for an Associate

The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota associate degree visual & performing arts students.

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

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University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota

#5 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of South Dakota. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in South Dakota for an Associate. Vermillion, South Dakota is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s visual and performing arts degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at University of South Dakota

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Oglala Lakota College
Kyle, South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oglala Lakota College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in South Dakota for an Associate list. 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

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Sinte Gleska University
Mission, South Dakota

Out of the 5 schools in the Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in South Dakota for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Sinte Gleska University landed the #3 spot on the list. Sinte Gleska University is a small school located in Mission, South Dakota that handed out 0 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Sinte Gleska University Visual & Performing Arts Report

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Northern State University
Aberdeen, South Dakota

#11 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in South Dakota for an Associate list. NSU is a small public school situated in Aberdeen, South Dakota. It awarded 17 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees 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 full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Northern State University

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