2022 Best Value Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services (Income $0-$30k) in South Dakota

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools in South Dakota For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Personal & Culinary Services is the 31st most popular major in the country with 119,853 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, personal and culinary services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $17,656 and had an average of $12,064 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 206 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality personal and culinary services programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the personal and culinary services program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools in South Dakota For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools in South Dakota For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools in South Dakota For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services (Income $0-$30k) in South Dakota

#1

Mitchell Technical College

Mitchell, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$9,349 Average Net Price

$36,836 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mitchell Technical College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools in South Dakota For Those Making $0-$30k list. Mitchell Tech is a public institution located in Mitchell, South Dakota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 7 ’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Mitchell Tech not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Schools in South Dakota” list. The estimated yearly cost for Mitchell Tech is $9,349 for South Dakota Personal & Culinary Services students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at Mitchell Tech

• Best Value Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services (Income $0-$30k) in the Plains States Region
• Best Value Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services (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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