2022 Best Value Colleges for Outdoor Education in South Dakota (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Outdoor Ed Schools in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Outdoor Education is the 314th most popular major in the country with 255 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, outdoor education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 11 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality outdoor education programs that also have a lower cost than 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 outdoor education program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Outdoor Ed Schools in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value Outdoor Ed Schools in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Outdoor Ed Schools in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Outdoor Education in South Dakota (With Aid)

#1

Black Hills State University

Spearfish, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$16,641 Average Net Price

$33,229 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Outdoor Ed Schools in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Black Hills State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Spearfish, South Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s outdoor ed degrees to 11 students in 2019-2020.

BHSU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Outdoor Education Schools in South Dakota” list. It costs about $16,641 for South Dakota Outdoor Ed students with aid per year to attend BHSU.

Read more about Outdoor Education at Black Hills State University

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• Best Value Colleges for Outdoor Education (With Aid)

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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