2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education (Income $30-$48k) in South Dakota

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Education is the 35th most popular major in the country with 29,936 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $47,138 and had an average of $29,674 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 129 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,500 and $12,182 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 129 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general education 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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Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota master’s degree education students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education (Income $30-$48k) in South Dakota

#1

Augustana University

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$36,480 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$50,272 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Augustana University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and it awarded 128 masters’s education degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Augustana Sioux Falls, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Education Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Augustana University are $36,480, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about General Education at Augustana Sioux Falls

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education (Income $30-$48k) in the Plains States Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education (Income $30-$48k)

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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