2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design in South Dakota

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Instructional Media Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Instructional Media Design is the 113th most popular major in the country with 7,710 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, instructional media design graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $52,602 and had an average of $31,700 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 33 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 33 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in instructional media design. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great instructional media design 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 instructional media design program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota

The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota master’s degree instructional media students.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design in South Dakota

#1

Dakota State University

Madison, South Dakota

#2 in overall quality

$11,809 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Dakota State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota. Madison, South Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s instructional media degrees to 16 students in 2019-2020.

Dakota State also made our “Best Instructional Media Design Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at Dakota State are $11,809, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Instructional Media Design at Dakota State

#2

University of Sioux Falls

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$7,110 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Sioux Falls landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Sioux Falls is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It awarded 12 masters’s instructional media degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Sioux Falls also made our “Best Instructional Media Design Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Sioux Falls are $7,110, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Instructional Media Design at University of Sioux Falls

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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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