2021 Best Colleges in South Dakota for Students from Mexico

It's not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for international students. College Factual has developed its Best Colleges for Mexican Students in South Dakota ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

We analyzed 2 colleges and universities across South Dakota to determine which were the best for Mexican students in South Dakota. To come up with this ranking, we look at a number of factors that are all objective measurements. These factors include the school's overall quality as determined by our Best Colleges ranking and the percentage of international students on campus.

See what other factors we include in our ranking methodology.

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Top Colleges in South Dakota for Students from Mexico

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD

$12,809 Avg Tuition & Fees

5.3% International Students

South Dakota State University tops this year’s ranking as the best school for Mexican students in South Dakota. South Dakota State is located in Brookings, South Dakota and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1,977 bachelor’s degrees to qualified undergraduates.

International students make up 5.3% of the total student body at the school. Students studying at South Dakota State come from such countries as India, Saudi Arabia, and Nepal.

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2

Northern State University
Aberdeen, SD

$11,947 Avg Tuition & Fees

2.0% International Students

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at Northern State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for Mexican students in South Dakota. Northern State University is a small public school located in Aberdeen, South Dakota that handed out 254 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

International students make up 2.0% of the total student body at the school. The top three countries sending students to study at NSU are South Korea, China, and Mexico.

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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.