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2023 Most Popular Nursing Master's Degree 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.

The Most Popular Nursing Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota ranking is one of many tools that Nursing Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 3 schools in South Dakota to see which ones were the most popular master's degree 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

Mount Marty University

Yankton, South Dakota
24 Total Awards
$9,650 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Mount Marty University the most popular school in South Dakota for nursing students working on their master’s degree. Yankton, South Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out master’s degrees to 24 students in 2020-2021.

Of those students who received their degree, 88% 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. In 2019-2020 about 91% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

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#2

South Dakota State University

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

The excellent master’s degree programs at South Dakota State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular nursing schools in South Dakota. Brookings, South Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out master’s degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.

Of those students who received their degree, 91% were women.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since South Dakota State does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. During the 2019-2020 year, about 45% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.

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#3

Presentation College

Aberdeen, South Dakota
9 Total Awards
$18,157 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, Presentation College landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in Aberdeen, South Dakota, the very small private not-for-profit school handed out 9 master’s degree awards in 2020-2021.

Around 89% of those degree recipients were women.

If you are interested in distance education, Presentation College is an excellent choice, since graduate classes are offered online.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 3 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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