2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Journalism in South Dakota

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Journalism is the 69th most popular major in the country with 12,911 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , journalism graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $32,980 and had an average of $23,933 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 9 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,465 and $24,399 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in South Dakota” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in journalism. That schools that top this list have a program in journalism in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in South Dakota

The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota bachelor’s degree journalism students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Journalism in South Dakota

1

Augustana University
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

#3 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Augustana University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in South Dakota list. Augustana Sioux Falls is a small school located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota that handed out 4 bachelors’s journalism degrees in 2021-2022.

Read more about Journalism at Augustana University

2

South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota

#1 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in South Dakota list. South Dakota State University is a fairly large school located in Brookings, South Dakota that handed out 5 bachelors’s journalism degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Journalism at South Dakota State

3

Dakota Wesleyan University
Mitchell, South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dakota Wesleyan University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in South Dakota list. Dakota Wesleyan University is a small school located in Mitchell, South Dakota that handed out 0 bachelors’s journalism degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Journalism at Dakota Wesleyan University

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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