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DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY INFORMATIONDakota State University is located in Madison, South Dakota and is a public college. Dakota State University is a four year college and offers Associate's Degrees, Bachelor's Degrees, Master's Degrees, and a number of different programs and courses. Dakota State University is in a relatively urban area (in or near a city), which may be something you prefer if you like a city lifestyle as a student. Dakota State University does not have a rolling admission policy, and you will want to make sure that you get your application in before September 1. Dakota State University is relatively smaller in size with an enrollment of only 2,329 students. Dakota State University accepts about 52% of its applicants on average, and 64% of the students receive some sort of financial aid for college at Dakota State University. If you are looking for more information on financial aid at Dakota State University, you can may want to contact Denise Grayson, who is the Financial Aid Director at Dakota State University. You may also qualify for free grants for college in South Dakota to attend Dakota State University. You may also need to take one or more of the following tests to qualify for admission at Dakota State University:
If you are interested in joining the Army, Dakota State University does have an ROTC Army program that is available for attending students. If you are interested in joining the Air Force, Dakota State University does have an ROTC Air Force program that is available for attending students. Dakota State University offers military credit for military courses that have been completed successfully by students. If you have taken some advanced placement courses with an applicable test, or obtained credit from an other college, you may be eligible to transfer that credit to Dakota State University. Dakota State University offers the following co-op opportunities and programs to its students:
Dakota State University offers the following extracurricular activities to its students:
You may want to brush up on your ACT preparation as well, because the average ACT score for students that are entering Dakota State University is 22. Do a lot of students come from out of state to attend Dakota State University? Well, about 19% of the student body at Dakota State University comes from outside the state of South Dakota. Do a lot of the students at Dakota State University live on campus? Well, about 84% live on campus, while 16% live off campus and commute to school every day. QUICK FACTS ABOUT DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
Data provided by Data-lists.com Universities and Colleges Database. Data last updated on 2007-11-15. DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY IN SOUTH DAKOTA GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND FINANCIAL AID INFORMATIONAcademic Competitiveness (AC) Grant Program Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) Program Grants and Scholarships available in South dakota DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY NEWSDSU health information technology program partners with Good Samaritan SocietyDakota State University's (DSU) Health IT Workforce Development Training Program has been working in partnership with The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society to provide health IT training to their workforce located in 24 states. The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, established in 1922, is the nation's largest not-for-profit provider of senior care and services. The Good Samaritan Society (GSS) -- headquartered in Sioux Falls, S.D. -- serves more than 27,000 people in 240 locations nationwide. Services range from traditional skilled nursing care, senior living apartments, home health, assisted living, hospice care, inpatient and outpatient therapy and specialized care for people with Alzheimer's disease and dementia. DSU student chosen for national research program DSU student, Dylon Kiley, was recently accepted into the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Cyberinfrastructure Student Engagement Program. DSU graduate student team earns top honor from Department of Defense A graduate team from DSU, supervised by DSU professor Dr. Michael Tu, placed first in the US Graduate Team division of the 2011 Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) international competition. DSU students place at the American College Theatre Festival DSU students, Zachary Kantack and Jamie Rueckert, recently received a 2nd place National Design Technology and management award at the regional American College Theatre Festival. The festival was held January 15 through January 21 in Ames, Iowa. Critical access hospital in South Dakota Achieves stage 1 meaningful use Faulkton Area Medical Center (FAMC) a 12-bed critical access hospital in Faulkton, S.D., has met Stage 1 Meaningful Use criteria using a certified electronic health record (EHR). By successfully attesting for Stage 1 Meaningful Use with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Faulkton can receive payments from an EHR incentive payment program recently initiated in South Dakota. The incentive payments would help FAMC partially recover costs already incurred to meet federally mandated program guidelines. FAMC is one of the first facilities in South Dakota to achieve this milestone. Campus Update From the information we have this morning from the Madison Police Department, there is no indication of any ongoing threat to our students or staff associated with the incident in Madison last night. Knowlton farewell February 9th Alumni, friends, community members and the Dakota State University family are invited to a farewell for President Douglas Knowlton and his wife, Sharon, on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. Borofsky chosen as interim DSU President Dr. David B. Borofsky, provost and chief academic officer of Westwood College, has been named the interim president at Dakota State University. Borofsky will begin his duties on the Madison campus in early February and will serve in a temporary capacity through midyear of 2013. DSU SIFE student organization opens laser tag business The DSU Students in Free Enterprise group recently took on a new venture that will help them build real-world business experience. After raising money through selling local merchants discount cards and hosting a haunted house, the SIFE organization purchased equipment to run a laser tag business in Madison called DSU-SIFE Lazertag. DSU to hold Scrubs Camp March 23rd Area high school students will have an opportunity to explore a variety of health career options during the DSU 4th Annual Scrubs Camp on Friday, March 23, 2012 at Dakota State University. Olson creates website on accessible online education DSU professor Chris Olson recently launched the website, www.accessible-education.com, a free series of self-paced video tutorials on using speech recognition software for online education. Olson and fellow DSU professor, Dr. Jack Walters, were able to produce the series with a Quality of Life grant Olson received from the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. Dakota 38 documentary premiering at DSU Jim Miller will be premiering the documentary, Dakota 38, for the DSU and Madison community on Thursday, Jan. 26 at 7:00 p.m. in the DSU Science Center auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. "A Taste of Hunger" presentation addresses poverty Madison, SD., January 12, 2012Is hunger a problem in Madison? Is poverty? DSU student to present at National Conference on Undergraduate Research Madison, SD., January 11, 2012 Tosha (Inhofer) Gray, a senior at Dakota State University, will present at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) in Ogden, Utah, at Weber State University on March 29 through March 31. AAUW Awards Campus Action Project Grant Dakota State University has been awarded a 2011-12 Campus Action Project (CAP) grant from the American Association of University Women (AAUW) for Drama, Digital Storytelling, and New Media Campus Action Project, which will work to address and prevent sexual harassment at middle and high schools. DSU faculty and REU student fellow win best paper award The 23rd International Association of Science and Technology for Development's (IASTED) International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, awarded "Securing epidemic based update protocol for P2P systems" the Best Paper Award at the 2011 conference. DSU professors, Dr. Michael Tu and Dr. Dianxiang Xu, along with National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for the Undergraduate (REU) student fellow from Northern Kentucky University, Logan Smith, co-authored the paper. Top 11 news stories for 2011 This year brought many new and exciting events to Dakota State University, here are the top eleven stories for 2011. You can find all of the stories from the past year at http://www.dsu.edu/news/2011/index.aspx Physician first in SD to be federally validated as meaningful user HealthPOINT announced today that Dr. Annette Bosworth is the first healthcare provider in South Dakota to be validated, through the use of an Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) toolset, as a meaningful user of a certified electronic health record (EHR). Bosworth is an internal medicine physician and owns her own practice, Independent Medicine. Bosworth received assistance from HealthPOINT, South Dakota's Regional Extension Center, and with their help, passed three necessary milestones. Upon submission of her data to the CMS EHR Incentive Program, Bosworth will be eligible to receive incentive payments for adopting EHR technology through South Dakota's Medicaid program. HealthPOINT, a non-profit group, is designated by the federal government to assist South Dakota health care providers, like Bosworth, to become meaningful users of certified EHR's. Behrends art on display in Mundt Foundation Angela Behrends, Dakota State art professor and sculptor, recently installed one of her newest pieces on-campus, which was part of the Take the Day event at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, S.D. The installation is featured in the stairwell entrance to Mundt Foundation in the Karl E. Mundt Library and Learning Commons. Johnson and Uher serve as legislative interns Students from Dakota State University will be serving as technology interns at the South Dakota Legislature during the 2012 session. This is the eighth consecutive year DSU students have served in this capacity. Over 8700 South Dakota students on virtual road trip Health EDventure, a K-12 health curriculum website sponsored by Avera Health, recently developed an online program that takes kids around the state of South Dakota without ever having to leave their classroom. Dirks family establishes scholarship endowment The family of Dakota State alumnus Larry Dirks recently set up an endowment in his memory to provide scholarships for student athletes. Harlan J. and Delphia B. Dirks established the Lawrence W. Dirks Memorial Endowed Scholarship with a $150,000 gift. Harlan, a retired Foreign Service Officer, is Larry's brother, and lives in Washington, D.C. with wife Delphia. DSU to unveil new website This fall brought a new marketing campaign to DSU with the new slogan, "Technically, we're better." Keeping with the spirit of this branding, Dakota State will be launching a new look for the website, www.dsu.edu this spring semester. |
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