by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual began publishing its yearly rankings to help students identify graduate schools that put a high emphasis on educational quality as well as helping 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.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., Dakota State University landed the #276 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota, Dakota State came in at #4.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and Dakota State took the #174 spot on the list.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in South Dakota, Dakota State came in at #3.
Women make up 23.5% of the total graduate student body at Dakota State while men make you 76.5%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at Dakota State, around 23.1% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 12.3% 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 tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $5,999 | $11,199 |
| Fees | $732 | $732 |
After obtaining their master's degree from Dakota State, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $80,459. That's good news for those graduates since it is 38% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Dakota State University.
Contact details for Dakota State are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 820 N Washington Ave, Madison, SD 57042-1799 |
| Phone: | 605-256-5111 |
| Website: | https://dsu.edu/ |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/DakotaState |
Around 95.1% of Dakota State graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. Approximately 84.4% 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 |
| Computer Information Systems | 62 |
| Information Science | 20 |
| Information Technology | 26 |
| Instructional Media Design | 12 |
Just like the master’s degree programs, only programs that had doctorate degrees awarded in 2020-2021 are shown here.
| Doctorate Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Information Science | 2 |
| Information Technology | 12 |
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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