2021 Best Colleges in South Dakota for Students from Germany

It's not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for international students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our Best Colleges for German Students in South Dakota ranking - to help you make that decision.

After analyzing 2 schools in South Dakota, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for German students in South Dakota. Our ranking methodology focuses a number of different objective factors - such as the overall quality of the school, number of total international students at the school, and the percentage of international students on campus - to make this determination.

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Top Colleges in South Dakota for Students from Germany

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

Augustana University
Sioux Falls, SD

$35,914 Avg Tuition & Fees

4.1% International Students

Our 2021 rankings named Augustana University the best school for German students in South Dakota working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the small private not-for-profit school handed out 567 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

International students make up 4.1% of the total student body at the school. The top three countries sending students to study at Augustana Sioux Falls are Ethiopia, Norway, and China.

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2

University of South Dakota
Vermillion, SD

$12,942 Avg Tuition & Fees

2.3% International Students

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at University of South Dakota helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for German students in South Dakota. USD is located in Vermillion, South Dakota and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1,333 bachelor’s degrees to qualified undergraduates.

Of the total number of students at the school, 2.3% are international. Students from as far away as China, India, and Nepal come to USD to study.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 schools only.

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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.