2023 Most Popular Teaching Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota
A teaching student has lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school or bootcamp that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Teaching Degree Search has created the Most Popular Teaching Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 11 schools in South Dakota to see which master's degree programs were the most popular for teaching students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from each school on the list.
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Most Popular Teaching Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota
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Our analysis found Augustana University to be the most popular school for teaching students who want to pursue a master’s degree in South Dakota. Augustana Sioux Falls is a private not-for-profit institution located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 87 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Around 87% of those degree recipients were women.
Online graduate courses are available at Augustana Sioux Falls, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. During the 2019-2020 year, about 80% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of South Dakota. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Teaching Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota list. Located in Vermillion, South Dakota, the medium-sized public school handed out 75 master’s degree awards in 2020-2021.
Around 64% of those degree recipients were women.
USD does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 58% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Teaching Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota list. This small public school is located in Aberdeen, South Dakota, and it awarded 75 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Around 77% of those degree recipients were women.
You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at NSU. During the 2019-2020 year, about 84% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Sioux Falls helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular teaching schools in South Dakota. University of Sioux Falls is a small private not-for-profit school located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota that handed out 66 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Around 61% of those degree recipients were women.
You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at University of Sioux Falls. In 2019-2020 about 75% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Black Hills State University is a great place for teaching students working on their master’s degree. BHSU is located in Spearfish, South Dakota and has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 49 master’s degrees to qualified students.
Around 78% of those degree recipients were women.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at BHSU. During the 2019-2020 year, about 86% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
South Dakota State University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular places for teaching students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #6 on the list. Brookings, South Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out master’s degrees to 28 students in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 82% were women.
You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at South Dakota State. In 2019-2020 about 45% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
Dakota Wesleyan University landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the most popular master’s degree teaching programs. Dakota Wesleyan University is located in Mitchell, South Dakota and has a very small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 21 master’s degrees to qualified students.
Around 38% of those degree recipients were women.
Dakota Wesleyan University does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 31% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
Mount Marty University ranked #8 on this year’s Most Popular Teaching Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota list. This small private not-for-profit school is located in Yankton, South Dakota, and it awarded 14 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 64% were women.
You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at Mount Marty. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 91% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
Dakota State University ranked #9 on this year’s Most Popular Teaching Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota list. Located in Madison, South Dakota, the small public school handed out 12 master’s degree awards in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 83% were women.
You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at Dakota State. In fact, around 96% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
Sinte Gleska University ranked #10 on this year’s Most Popular Teaching Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota list. Sinte Gleska University is located in Mission, South Dakota and has a very small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 master’s degrees to qualified students.
Around 100% of those degree recipients were women.
Oglala Lakota College landed the #11 spot in the 2023 rankings for the most popular master’s degree teaching programs.
Interested in an online degree? Then you definitely want to check out Oglala Lakota College. Every graduate student at the school took at least one class online.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 11 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.
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