Sinte Gleska University
Public College in Mission, SD. Six-year graduation rate 100%. Median 10-year earnings $20,948.
Ten-year median earnings of $20,948 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. 100% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Graduation rate 100% — well above the national average
Academics
Six-year completion runs to 100% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. 100% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. The student-faculty ratio is 16:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. This is a small school — 607 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 582 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $6,768 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. Income makes less difference than usual: $11,728 at $0–30k, $14,839 at $48–75k. Grant aid reaches 65% of students at an average of $8,207.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 22 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $11,728 |
| $30–48k | $13,818 |
| $48–75k | $14,839 |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Todd County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Heightened Cash Monitoring (Compliance Audit Late or Missing); School placed on Heightened Cash Monitoring
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)