2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Food, Nutrition & Related Services in South Dakota

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 4,889 people earned their degree in food, nutrition and related services, making the major the 131st most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, food, nutrition and related services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,096 and had an average of $25,351 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 61 food, nutrition and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 28 food, nutrition and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great food, nutrition and related services programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the food, nutrition and related services program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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

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

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Food, Nutrition & Related Services in South Dakota

#1

South Dakota State University

Brookings, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$16,743 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Nutrition Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota State University landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Brookings, South Dakota, and it awarded 28 masters’s nutrition degrees in 2019-2020.

South Dakota State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Food, Nutrition & Related Services Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at South Dakota State University are $16,743, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Food, Nutrition & Related Services at South Dakota State

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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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