Program Payoff

Dakota State University

Madison, South Dakota. 19 certificate and associate programs, public. 19 of them report what graduates earn; for the rest, the figure below is what the occupation pays in South Dakota.

ProgramCredentialMedian debtGraduates earnThe occupation pays
Health and Medical Administrative Services Associate's degree not published $62,530
First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
Accounting and Related Services Undergraduate certificate not published $46,340
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
Accounting and Related Services Associate's degree not published $46,340
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions Associate's degree not published $65,240
Radiologic Technologists and Technicians
Business Administration, Management and Operations Associate's degree not published $137,400
General and Operations Managers
Computer Software and Media Applications Undergraduate certificate not published $96,310
Software Developers
Computer Software and Media Applications Associate's degree not published $96,310
Software Developers
Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications Undergraduate certificate not published $96,310
Software Developers
Computer and Information Sciences, General Undergraduate certificate not published $96,310
Software Developers
Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management Undergraduate certificate not published $75,010
Network and Computer Systems Administrators
Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management Associate's degree not published $75,010
Network and Computer Systems Administrators
Design and Applied Arts Undergraduate certificate not published $48,390
Graphic Designers
Health and Medical Administrative Services Undergraduate certificate not published $62,530
First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
Information Science/Studies Undergraduate certificate not published $96,310
Software Developers
Information Science/Studies Associate's degree not published $96,310
Software Developers
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities Associate's degree not published
Mathematics Undergraduate certificate not published $51,050
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
Medical Illustration and Informatics Associate's degree not published $105,370
Computer Occupations, All Other
Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies Undergraduate certificate not published $56,730
Editors

"Graduates earn" is the median two years after completing, from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard, released 2026-06-10; the number in brackets is how many graduates it covers. A dash means the Department has not published a figure — it withholds any median computed from too few graduates — and never that the figure is zero. "The occupation pays" is the state median for the occupation the program leads to, from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey, and describes everyone in that job rather than graduates of this school.