by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual produces its Best Quality Schools rankings on a yearly basis to recognize those graduate schools that provide an excellent educational experience and are dedicated to helping their students succeed. 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.
Black Hills State University came in at #930 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, BHSU came in at #9.
The total graduate student population at BHSU is made up of 67.7% women and 32.3% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
About 4.6% of the graduate students who attend BHSU are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 2.1% 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 | $7,998 | $14,931 |
| Fees | $918 | $918 |
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their master's degree at BHSU is $42,972. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 26% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Black Hills State University.
Contact details for BHSU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1200 University St, Spearfish, SD 57799-9500 |
| Phone: | 800-255-2478 |
| Website: | www.bhsu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/BlackHillsState |
| Twitter: | http://www.twitter.com/BlackHillsState |
In 2020-2021, 69.4% of the graduate students at Black Hills State University took at least one class online. Approximately 53.4% of grad students took all their classes online during that same time period.
The only degree programs listed here are those in which master’s degrees were awarded in 2020-2021.
| Master’s Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 5 |
| Curriculum & Instruction | 9 |
| Human Resource Management | 13 |
| Special Education | 2 |
| Sustainability Science | 5 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 28 |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 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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