Finance at Dakota State University

If you plan to study finance, take a look at what Dakota State University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Dakota State is located in Madison, South Dakota and approximately 3,186 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 6 students received a bachelor's degree in finance from Dakota State.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Finance section at the bottom of this page.

Dakota State Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Online Classes Are Available at Dakota State

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Dakota State offers distance education options for finance at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Dakota State Finance Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks finance programs across the country. The following shows how Dakota State performed in these rankings.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The finance major at Dakota State is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Finance. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	12
	29
	38
	43
	112
	131
	373
	415
	509
	539
	553
	606

Finance Student Demographics at Dakota State

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the finance majors at Dakota State University.

Dakota State Finance Bachelor’s Program

Of the 6 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Finance from Dakota State in 2020-2021, 67% were men and 33% were women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at Dakota State since its program graduates 3% more women than average.

About 100% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at Dakota State are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Dakota State University with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	6
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Dakota State also has a doctoral program available in finance. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

Careers That Finance Grads May Go Into

A degree in finance can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for SD, the home state for Dakota State University.

Occupation	Jobs in SD	Average Salary in SD
General and Operations Managers	3,670	$125,490
Loan Officers	1,590	$63,230
Financial Managers	680	$132,030
Chief Executives	540	$251,950
Financial Analysts	450	$73,870

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Jlgrabinger under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.