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2022 Best Value Plant Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
43 Degrees Awarded
$19,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Plant Sciences Schools for a Bachelor's in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Plant Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Plant Sciences is the 162nd most popular major in the country with 3,246 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, plant sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $35,854 and had an average of $19,711 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 58 plant sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,800 and $24,996 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 43 plant sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality plant sciences programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the plant sciences program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The plant sciences school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Plant Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid”.

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Best Value Plant Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Plant Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Plant Sciences in South Dakota (With Aid)

#1

South Dakota State University

Brookings, South Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Dakota State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Plant Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid. This fairly large school is located in Brookings, South Dakota, and it awarded 43 bachelors’s plant sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

South Dakota State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Plant Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” list. The yearly cost to attend South Dakota State is $19,252 for South Dakota Bachelor’s Degree Plant Sciences students with aid.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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Notes and References

References

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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