2022 Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Agriculture & Agriculture Operations is the 23rd most popular major in the country with 51,300 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, agriculture and agriculture operations graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $34,886 and had an average of $19,085 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 584 agriculture and agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 28 agriculture and agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great agriculture and agriculture operations programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the agriculture and agriculture operations 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Agriculture & Agriculture Operations in South Dakota (With Aid)

#1

South Dakota State University

Brookings, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$16,743 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid list. South Dakota State University is a fairly large school located in Brookings, South Dakota that handed out 28 masters’s agriculture and agriculture operations degrees in 2019-2020.

South Dakota State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at South Dakota State are $16,743, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Agriculture & Agriculture Operations at South Dakota State University

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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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