2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting in South Dakota

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Accounting Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

With 101,094 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, accounting is the 8th most popular major in the United States. In 2017-2018, accounting graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $44,557 and had an average of $26,381 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 258 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,050 and $28,845 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 43 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent accounting 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 accounting program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Accounting Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Accounting Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Accounting Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting in South Dakota

#1

University of South Dakota

Vermillion, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$12,637 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$59,485 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Accounting Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Dakota landed the #1 spot on the list. Vermillion, South Dakota is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s accounting degrees to 37 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at USD, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Accounting Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of South Dakota are $12,637, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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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