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Most Popular Legal Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in South Dakota

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2023 Most Popular Legal Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in South Dakota

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Out of the majors we analyze each year, legal professions was ranked 8th in South Dakota. In fact, 62 were awarded in the state in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Most Popular Legal Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in South Dakota ranking. This report analyzed 1 schools in South Dakota to see which ones were the most popular doctor's degree programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Legal Professions program at each school on the list.

The following school tops our list of the Most Popular Legal Professions Doctor's Degree Colleges.

#1

University of South Dakota

Vermillion, SD

Our 2023 rankings named University of South Dakota the most popular school in South Dakota for legal professions students working on their doctor’s degree. USD is a moderately-sized public school located in the distant town of Vermillion.

Women make up 45% of the legal professions majors at the school.

Full Legal Professions at University of South Dakota Report

Explore all the Most Popular Legal Professions Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 210
Missouri 1,062
Minnesota 821
Iowa 272
North Dakota 60
Nebraska 233

Major Annual Graduates
Law 36,216
Legal Research 6,659
Legal Professions (Other) 1,424
Legal Support Services 446
Non-Professional General Legal Studies 444

Related Major Annual Graduates
Public Administration & Social Service 53,252
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting 13,045
Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies 10,452
Military Technologies & Applied Sciences 1,613

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

  • 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 the rest 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).
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More about our data sources and methodologies.

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