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Presentation College is for sale

ABERDEEN, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - Presentation College officially closed its campus in August. Now, the Presentation Sisters are looking to sell portions of the campus.

Presentation announced it would be closing down in January. Teach-out agreements were made with 36 colleges and universities, including Northern State. A total of 140 Presentation College students graduated in the past year, including 25 this August. Of the 306 students who have not yet graduated, 222 chose a teach-out or transfer institution.

The college, which was founded in 1951, is now for sale. The Presentation Sisters, however, have some requirements for what the land will be used for.

“We would like to see the land used for some purpose that would align with the values of the Sisters,” Sister Mary Thomas, President of the Presentation Sisters Corporate Board, said.

Presentation Sisters have been in the Dakotas since the 1880s on a mission of education and health care. They founded Avera St. Luke’s Hospital in 1901 and together with the Benedictine Sisters of Yankton, S.D., sponsor the Avera Health system.

The Sisters have not yet sold any portion of the property. Anyone with interest can contact Bender Commercial Real Estate Services at 605-336-7600 or benderco.com or contact the Presentation Sisters by emailing Amber Schwab at [email protected] .

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About 12% of students accepted to Presentation College submitted their SAT scores . When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 420 and 560. Math scores were between 430 and 540.

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The student to faculty ratio is often used to measure the number of teaching resources that a college or university offers its students. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1, but at Presentation College it is much better at 11 to 1 . That's good news for students who want to interact more on a personal level with their teachers.

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The full-time faculty percentage at Presentation College is 60%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.

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The freshmen retention rate is a sign of how many full-time students like a college or university well enough to come back for their sophomore year. At Presentation College this rate is 51% , which is a bit lower than the national average of 68%.

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When we say that a student has graduated on time, we mean that they have finished their bachelor's degree within four years. The on-time graduation rate at Presentation College is 21%. That's lower than the national rate of 33.3%

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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 598 undergraduates at Presentation College with 393 being full-time and 205 being part-time.

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While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At Presentation College, approximately 59% of students took out student loans averaging $4,924 a year. That adds up to $19,696 over four years for those students.

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In 2020-2021, 405 students took at least one online class at Presentation College. This is a decrease from the 458 students who took online classes the previous year.

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NSU graduates first class of former Presentation College students

With the closure of Presentation College last school year, students have to find their paths forward. Now, some of those students have walked the graduation stage across town.

With the two institutions teach-out agreement, some Presentation students hopped across Aberdeen to Northern State University to complete their degrees.

NSU chief enrollment officer Marcus Garstecki said the school graduated six former Presentation students in this commencement.

“Of course, with Northern being right here in Aberdeen – two miles away from PC campus – it was a natural fit to have a teach-out agreement,” Garstecki said.

In total, 21 students made the jump across town.

“It’s been really good for most of the students," Garstecki said. "I think one thing that was very interesting was most of those 21 students were not from the Aberdeen area or even from South Dakota. So, they had been here in Aberdeen for a couple years, obviously they felt very at home here in Aberdeen – very comfortable here – because they didn’t want to leave the community.”

Despite the additions to student headcount, Garstecki said the community lost something with the closure of Presentation.

“One of Presentation College’s hallmark programs was nursing," Garstecki said. "Without having that nursing program here in Aberdeen and to serve the entire northeast South Dakota region, Northern has stepped forward and we started perusing a nursing degree and we will actually launch that degree in the fall of 2025.”

According to Northern, university closures have a serious effect on the likelihood of graduation for re-enrollees, with only 36 percent of students earning degrees post-closure.

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