Marketing is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #64 most popular associate degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Marketing Associate Degree Schools in South Dakota ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 87 associate degrees in marketing to qualified students.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on marketing students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other marketing students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for marketing to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized marketing related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for marketing students working on their associate degree.
The marketing school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Marketing Associate Degree Schools in South Dakota.
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Lake Area Technical Institute is one of the finest schools in the country for getting an associate degree in marketing. Located in the remote town of Watertown, LATI is a public school with a small student population.
Associate students who receive their degree from the marketing program make around $32,043 in the first couple years of working.
Southeast Technical College is a great option for students pursuing an associate degree in marketing. Southeast Tech is a small public college located in the medium-sized city of Sioux Falls.
Associate recipients from the marketing program at Southeast Technical College earn $3,787 above the typical graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).