Sioux Falls, SD (population: 160,938) has six medicine and health schools within its city limits. Augustana College, the highest ranked school in the city with a medicine and health program, has a total student population of 1,793. It is the 218th highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of South Dakota.
Medicine and Health students from Sioux Falls schools who go on to become medicine and health professionals, office administrators, massage therapists, trainers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 271,710 people working as medical and health services managers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $90,970. Also, Registered nurses make on average $66,530 per year and there are about 2,583,770 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Sioux Falls area alone, there are 4,720 employed registered nurses earning an average salary of $55,410. Medical and health services managers in this area earn $87,080/yr and there are 210 employed.
Sioux Falls lies in Minnehaha county, which is one of the 37 counties in South Dakota. Overall, the Sioux Falls area has 134,240 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.8% unemployment rate, $17.23/hr average worker wage, and a $35,840 average annual salary. Thus, about 1.542 out of every 1000 jobs in Sioux Falls are held by medical and health services managers, and 35.141/1000 are held by registered nurses.
Of the 6 medicine and health schools in Sioux Falls, none have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Sioux Falls comes out as the most expensive ($19,361/yr) for medicine and health students, with Southeast Technical Institute as the lowest, reported at only $9,672/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Sioux Falls |
| Orange City | IA | - | 1 | 27.8622 | 68 | 50.0 miles |
| Brookings | SD | - | 1 | 31.8924 | 109 | 53.5 miles |
| Vermillion | SD | - | 1 | 64.495 | 98 | 53.6 miles |
| Mitchell | SD | - | 2 | 42.657 | 88 | 66.1 miles |
| Sioux City | IA | 83,250 | 6 | 24.3659 | 219 | 74.0 miles |
| Storm Lake | IA | - | 2 | 49.0567 | 85 | 99.0 miles |