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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agricultural Production in South Dakota (With Aid)

1 Ranked Colleges
13 Degrees Awarded
$19,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor's in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 3,610 people earned their degree in agricultural production, making the major the 177th most popular in the United States. 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 bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 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.

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 agricultural production program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid.

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

#1

South Dakota State University

Brookings, South Dakota
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Agricultural Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid list. This fairly large school is located in Brookings, South Dakota, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s agricultural production degrees in 2019-2020.

South Dakota State also took the #1 spot in our “Best Agricultural Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for South Dakota State University is $19,252 for South Dakota Bachelor’s Degree Agricultural Production students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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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