2022 Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Education is the 35th most popular major in the country with 29,936 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $47,138 and had an average of $29,674 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 129 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,500 and $12,182 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 129 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general education 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 education program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education (Income $0-$30k) in South Dakota

#1

Augustana University

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$36,480 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$50,272 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Augustana University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 128 degrees to qualified masters’s education students in 2019-2020.

Augustana Sioux Falls also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Education Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Augustana Sioux Falls are $36,480.

Read full report on General Education at Augustana Sioux Falls

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education (Income $0-$30k) in the Plains States Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education (Income $0-$30k)

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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