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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Early Childhood Education (Income $75-$110k) in South Dakota

1 Ranked Colleges
66 Degrees Awarded
$20,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor's in South Dakota For Those Making $75-$110k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Early Childhood Education is the 34th most popular major in the country with 31,017 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across South Dakota, there were 77 early childhood education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 66 early childhood education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality early childhood education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the early childhood education program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Making $75-$110k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Early Childhood Education (Income $75-$110k) in South Dakota

#1

South Dakota State University

Brookings, South Dakota
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota State University landed the #1 spot on the list. South Dakota State is a public institution located in Brookings, South Dakota. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 61 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

South Dakota State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” list. It costs about $20,754 for South Dakota Bachelor’s Degree Child development students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend South Dakota State University.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national 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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