Largest South Dakota Colleges With Most Students

South Dakota State University is the largest South Dakota college with 11,327 students. The percentage of online students is 18.79% at the school.

University of South Dakota with 9,856 students and Black Hills State University with 3,425 students are following it in the largetst South Dakota college ranking.

For the largest college ranking, we exclude colleges with more than 50% of online students. Instead, you can check them at the largest South Dakota online colleges.

South Dakota State University stays at first place of the largest college ranking since last year. University of South Dakota also maintained its second place in the ranking.

The average undergraduate tuition & fees of the schools is $19,312 and graduate tuition & fees is $15,133 for the academic year 2023-2024.

The average acceptance rate is 81.33% and the average SAT score is 1,184 at the schools.

For the largest college ranking, we exclude colleges with more than 50% online students. Instead, you can check largest online colleges at the largest online colleges.

Table. Largest South Dakota Colleges With Most Students Comparison
	School Name	Total Population	Undergraduate Enrollment	Graduation Enrollment	Men Enrollment	Women Enrollment	Online Enrollment	Students to Faculty Ratio
1 -	South Dakota State University Brookings, SDPublic, 4-year	11,327 138	9,917	1,410	4,951	6,376	2,128	18 to 1
2 -	University of South Dakota Vermillion, SDPublic, 4-year	9,856 392	7,132	2,724	3,641	6,215	3,288	14 to 1
3 -	Black Hills State University Spearfish, SDPublic, 4-year	3,425 114	3,261	164	1,252	2,173	1,332	18 to 1
4 -	Northern State University Aberdeen, SDPublic, 4-year	3,344 4	2,851	493	1,228	2,116	1,475	16 to 1
5 -	South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, SDPublic, 4-year	2,492 76	2,163	329	1,888	604	107	12 to 1
6 -	Augustana University Sioux Falls, SDPrivate, 4-year	2,086 64	1,831	255	755	1,331	149	12 to 1
7 -	University of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls, SDPrivate, 4-year	1,594 31	1,325	269	616	978	180	17 to 1
8 1	Mount Marty University Yankton, SDPrivate, 4-year	1,252 16	1,080	172	584	668	27	13 to 1
9 1	Oglala Lakota College Kyle, SDPublic, 4-year	1,177 274	1,147	30	343	834	324	10 to 1
10 -	Dakota Wesleyan University Mitchell, SDPrivate, 4-year	887 39	723	164	412	475	94	12 to 1
	Average	3,744	3,143	601	1,567	2,177	910	14 to 1

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