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Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for business students. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school or bootcamp to be a better alternative for you.

The <nil> ranking is one of many tools that Business Degree Central has developed to help you make your educational decision.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Top Value Business Graduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

University of South Dakota

Vermillion, South Dakota

13 Total Awards

#1 in Quality in South Dakota

$12,768 Average Tuition & Fees

Our rankings named University of South Dakota the best value school in South Dakota for business students working on their graduate certificate. University of South Dakota is a medium-sized public school located in Vermillion, South Dakota that handed out 13 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.

USD graduate students pay an average of $12,768 in tuition and fees each year.

Online graduate courses are available at USD, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 58% took at least some of their classes online.

USD did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our list.

Full University of South Dakota Report

#2

Dakota Wesleyan University

Mitchell, South Dakota

24 Total Awards

#2 in Quality in South Dakota

$15,300 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dakota Wesleyan University. It ranked #2 on our list. Mitchell, South Dakota is the setting for this very small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out graduate certificates to 24 students in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Dakota Wesleyan University are $15,300 a year.

Dakota Wesleyan University does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. In 2019-2020 about 31% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

Dakota Wesleyan University also made our list, coming in at #2.

Full Dakota Wesleyan University Report

Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages 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.

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