-31%
Sisseton Wahpeton College · Public associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Sisseton Wahpeton College are 31% below the public associate's-predominant peer median ($31.5k vs $45.5k).
State hub · South Dakota · vintage 2025-05
South Dakota Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in South Dakota — and every program where federal data is published. Sourced from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Treasury tax records.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags across South Dakota
Top signals rolled up across South Dakotainstitutions — a mix of warnings and improvements, alternating so the page isn't skewed in either direction. Detectors: short-arc shift (recent 3-year window), earnings trend, peer outlier, completion drop, enrollment cliff, and debt-to-earnings warning. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section.
-100%
National American University-Rapid City · 150%-time completion
150%-time completion at National American University-Rapid City fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (10.5% → 0.0%).
-100%
National American University-Rapid City · 100%-time completion
100%-time completion at National American University-Rapid City fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (12.5% → 0.0%).
-100%
Avera Sacred Heart Hospital · Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Avera Sacred Heart Hospital fell 100% between 2020 and 2023 (16 → 0).
-100%
California Intercontinental University · 150%-time completion
150%-time completion at California Intercontinental University fell 100% between 2021 and 2023 (100.0% → 0.0%).
+58%
Avera Sacred Heart Hospital · In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Avera Sacred Heart Hospital rose 58% between 2002 and 2004 ($950 → $1.5k).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across South Dakota Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Title-IV main campuses1,185
with published outcomes$46,709
across institutions59.6%
median across institutions35,477
latest historical vintage$8,845
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How South Dakota has shifted
Federally available history. Sparkline coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Statewide undergraduate enrollment, all Title-IV institutions.
Median completion rate within 150% of expected time.
+14%
Statewide · completion · 150% rose
44.0% → 50.1%
+148%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$3,567 → $8,845
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
11 institutions with 1,000+ undergrads, ranked by 10-year earnings
Click any column header to sort. Click any row for the full institution page. Heat-shading runs against the displayed values; em-dash means the cell was suppressed by federal privacy rules. Institutions with fewer than 1,000undergrads are filtered out here — small specialty schools (cosmetology, barbering, single-credential institutes) arithmetically dominate the extremes on every metric and aren't comparable to larger schools.
Showing 11 of 26 Title-IV institutions · Public 13 · Private 8 · For-profit 5
SECTION 04 · TOP BY EARNINGS
Highest 10-year median earnings
Treasury earnings, 10 years after entry. Includes non-completers and out-of-state movers in the cohort.
SECTION 05 · TOP BY COMPLETION
Highest 150%-time completion
Share of first-time, full-time freshmen who complete within 150% of expected time (IPEDS GR). Filtered to institutions with more than 1,000undergrads — tiny cohorts skew toward 100% and aren't comparable to larger schools.
BY CITY
All 13 South Dakota cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
METHODOLOGY
What these numbers are — and aren't
Earnings are median tax-record earnings for federally aided students, 4–10 years after first enrollment. They describe cohorts, not future outcomes — and they include non-completers and out-of-state movers. Selection bias is real: high-earning programs may attract higher-earning students. We surface descriptive numbers, not causal claims.