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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Avg Salary
With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly in South Dakota for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s” ranking.
In 2020-2021, 3,096 people earned their degree in community organization and advocacy, making the major the 169th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, community organization and advocacy graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $38,265 and had an average of $26,263 in loans still to pay off.
Across South Dakota, there were 20 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,934 and $31,250 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,663 and $32,117 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality community organization and advocacy programs as well as strong veteran support.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the community organization and advocacy program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly in South Dakota for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota bachelor’s degree vets studying community organization.
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in South Dakota for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Black Hills State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Black Hills State University is a small public school situated in Spearfish, South Dakota. It awarded 20 bachelors’s community organization degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at BHSU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Community Organization & Advocacy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” ranking.Of the 3,608 students enrolled at BHSU, 208 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 88 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $3,863. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
[Read full report on veteran student life at BHSU]](/colleges/black-hills-state-university/student-life/veterans/)
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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