2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Production in South Dakota (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for an Associate in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Agricultural Production is the 177th most popular major in the country with 3,610 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, agricultural production graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $30,100 and had an average of $16,942 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 53 agricultural production graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,300 and $12,000 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 40 agricultural production graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great agricultural production programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the agricultural production program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for an Associate in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for an Associate in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Production in South Dakota (With Aid)

#1

Mitchell Technical College

Mitchell, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$12,472 Average Net Price

$44,551 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 Agricultural Production Schools for an Associate in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid list. This small school is located in Mitchell, South Dakota, and it awarded 40 associates’s agricultural production degrees in 2019-2020.

Mitchell Tech also took the #1 spot in our “Best Agricultural Production Associate Degree Schools in South Dakota” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Mitchell Technical College is $12,472 for South Dakota Associate Degree Agricultural Production students with aid.

Read full report on Agricultural Production at Mitchell Technical College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Production in the Plains States Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Agricultural Production (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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