2022 Best Value General Business Schools for an Associate in South Dakota For Those Making $30-$48k

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 General Business Schools for an Associate in South Dakota For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 55,749 people earned their degree in general business/commerce, making the major the 13th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, general business/commerce graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $40,821 and had an average of $25,596 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 130 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,000 and $15,875 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 125 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general business/commerce programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general business/commerce program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value General Business Schools for an Associate in South Dakota For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota associate degree general business students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce (Income $30-$48k) in South Dakota

#1

Southeast Technical College

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$12,707 Average Net Price

$34,206 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value General Business Schools for an Associate in South Dakota For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Southeast Technical College landed the #1 spot on the list. Southeast Tech is a small school located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota that handed out 124 associates’s general business degrees in 2019-2020.

Southeast Tech also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Business/Commerce Associate Degree Schools in South Dakota” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Southeast Technical College is $12,707 for South Dakota Associate Degree General Business students whose families make $30-$48k.

Read more about General Business/Commerce at Southeast Technical College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce (Income $30-$48k) in the Plains States Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce (Income $30-$48k)

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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