2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Student Counseling in South Dakota (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Student Counseling Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 14,055 people earned their degree in student counseling, making the major the 73rd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, student counseling graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $43,174 and had an average of $42,631 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 44 student counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,400 and $26,830 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 44 student counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Student Counseling Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in student counseling. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality student counseling 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 student counseling 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Student Counseling Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Student Counseling Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Student Counseling Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Student Counseling in South Dakota (With Aid)

#1

South Dakota State University

Brookings, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$16,743 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$40,473 Average Early-Career Earnings

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 Student Counseling Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid. South Dakota State is a public institution located in Brookings, South Dakota. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 30 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at South Dakota State, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Student Counseling Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at South Dakota State University are $16,743, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Student Counseling at South Dakota State

#2

Northern State University

Aberdeen, South Dakota

#2 in overall quality

$11,814 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$43,240 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northern State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Student Counseling Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid. Northern State University is a small school located in Aberdeen, South Dakota that handed out 14 masters’s student counseling degrees in 2019-2020.

NSU also made our “Best Student Counseling Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at NSU are $11,814, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Student Counseling at NSU

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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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