by our College Data Analytics TeamEach year, College Factual releases its Best Quality Schools ranking to identify graduate schools that offer a great educational experience and provide excellent student outcomes. Our methodology places a high weight on things such as post-graduation wages, time to graduate, and student-per-faculty ratio. Post-graduation debt, faculty and staff diversity, and other factors are also taken into account.
Augustana University came in at #363 out of the 1149 colleges and universities that were ranked in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota, Augustana Sioux Falls came in at #5.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 78.9% of the total graduate students at Augustana Sioux Falls are women and 21.1% are men.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 6.3% of the graduate student population at Augustana Sioux Falls. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 1.8% of graduate students hail from another country. For more details on graduate school diversity at the school, check out the chart below. If you click on it, you'll be taken to a page with more details.
The average graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $35,716 | $35,716 |
| Fees | $980 | $980 |
Master's degree recipients from Augustana Sioux Falls earn an average salary of $51,320 during the early years of their career. When comparing to other master's degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 12% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Augustana University.
Contact details for Augustana Sioux Falls are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 2001 S Summit Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57197-0001 |
| Phone: | 605-274-5516 |
| Website: | www.augie.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/AugustanaCollegeSD |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/augustanasd |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 71.7% of the graduate students at Augustana Sioux Falls took at least one online course. Roughly 68.7% of all grad students took courses exclusively online.
The only degree programs listed here are those in which master’s degrees were awarded in 2020-2021.
| Master’s Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Accounting | 6 |
| Allied Health Professions | 6 |
| General Education | 87 |
| Health & Physical Education | 12 |
| Mental & Social Health Services | 10 |
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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