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2022 Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Making $48-$75k

1 Ranked Colleges
15 Degrees Awarded
$16,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Master's in South Dakota For Those Making $48-$75k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Animal Science is the 96th most popular major in the country with 8,086 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, animal science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $28,818 and had an average of $20,002 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 124 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,700 and $22,394 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 animal science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent animal science programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the animal science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Animal Science Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota master’s degree animal science students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Animal Science (Income $48-$75k) in South Dakota

#1

South Dakota State University

Brookings, South Dakota
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Dakota State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Animal Science Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Making $48-$75k. South Dakota State is located in Brookings, South Dakota and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 15 masters’s animal science degrees to qualified students.

South Dakota State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Animal Science Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at South Dakota State are $16,743, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full South Dakota State Animal Science Report

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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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