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2023 Most Popular Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota

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When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for nursing students. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school or bootcamp to be a better alternative for you.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Nursing Degree Search has created its Most Popular Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in South Dakota to see which ones were the most popular graduate certificate programs for nursing students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from each school on the list.

Learn more about these popular schools below:

#1

South Dakota State University

Brookings, South Dakota
29 Total Awards
$9,384 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found South Dakota State University to be the most popular school for nursing students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in South Dakota. Located in Brookings, South Dakota, the fairly large public school awarded 29 diplomas to qualifed graduate certificate students in 2021-2022.

Around 72% of those degree recipients were women.

Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at South Dakota State. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 46% of graduates took at least one course online in 2020-2021.

Full South Dakota State University Report

#2

Mount Marty University

Yankton, South Dakota
4 Total Awards
$9,995 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mount Marty University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota list. This small private not-for-profit school is located in Yankton, South Dakota, and it awarded 4 graduate certificates in 2021-2022.

Of those students who received their degree, 100% were women.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Mount Marty does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2020-2021 academic year, around 98% took at least some of their classes online.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages 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.

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