2022 Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Making $30-$48k

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Natural Resources & Conservation is the 26th most popular major in the country with 30,341 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, natural resources and conservation graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,196 and had an average of $25,077 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 101 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent natural resources and conservation programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the natural resources and conservation 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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Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources & Conservation (Income $30-$48k) in South Dakota

#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 Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Making $30-$48k list. Brookings, South Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s natural resources and conservation degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

South Dakota State also made our “Best Natural Resources & Conservation Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at South Dakota State University are $16,743, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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