Advertising at South Dakota State University

What traits are you looking for in a advertising school? To help you decide if South Dakota State University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's advertising program.

South Dakota State is located in Brookings, South Dakota and has a total student population of 12,104. Of the 224 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from South Dakota State University in 2019, 14 of them were advertising majors.

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

South Dakota State Advertising Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising

South Dakota State Advertising Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the advertising progam at South Dakota State compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The advertising major at South Dakota State is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Advertising. 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
Best Advertising Bachelor’s Degree Schools	39
Best Advertising Schools	39
Most Popular Advertising Bachelor’s Degree Schools	51
Most Popular Advertising Schools	57
Most Focused Advertising Bachelor’s Degree Schools	60
Most Focused Advertising Schools	67

Advertising Student Demographics at South Dakota State

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

South Dakota State Advertising Bachelor’s Program

During the 2018-2019 academic year, 14 advertising majors earned their bachelor's degree from South Dakota State. Of these graduates, 57% were men and 43% were women. The typical advertising bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% men. So male students are more repesented at South Dakota State since its program graduates 24% more men than average.

About 93% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in advertising at South 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 South Dakota State University with a bachelor's in advertising.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	13
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

South Dakota State also has a doctoral program available in advertising. In 2019, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Public Relations

Careers That Advertising Grads May Go Into

A degree in advertising 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 South Dakota State University.

Occupation	Jobs in SD	Average Salary in SD
Communications Professors	70	$66,390

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 AlexiusHoratius under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.