2021 Best Affordable Colleges in South Dakota for Students from Australia

With all of the options international students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Colleges for Australian Students in South Dakota ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Our analysis looked at 2 schools in South Dakota to determine which ones were the best for Australian students in South Dakota. Our ranking methodology focuses on a number of different objective factors - such as the overall value of the school, number of total international students at the school, and the percentage of international students on campus - to make this determination.

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Top Value Colleges in South Dakota for Students from Australia

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Rapid City, SD

$16,530 Avg Undergrad Tuition & Fees

5.8% International Students

Our 2021 rankings named South Dakota School of Mines and Technology the best affordable school for Australian students in South Dakota working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in Rapid City, South Dakota, the small public school handed out 360 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

International students make up 5.8% of the total student body at the school. Students from as far away as India, China, and Nepal come to SD Mines to study. Out-of-state tuition and fees for undergraduates at SD Mines is about $16,530 a year, on average. Graduate students pay around $20,116 a year in average tuition and fees.

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2

Presentation College
Aberdeen, SD

$22,006 Avg Undergrad Tuition & Fees

0.8% International Students

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Presentation College. The school came in at #2 in this year’s ranking. Presentation College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Aberdeen, South Dakota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 152 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 0.8% of the total student population at the school is international. Students from as far away as Australia, Canada, and Ireland come to Presentation College to study. Yearly tuition and fees (out-of-state) for undergraduates at Presentation College runs, on average, about $22,006. Graduate students pay around $18,157 a year in average tuition and fees.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 schools only.

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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.