2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Law in South Dakota (With Aid)

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 Law Schools for a Doctorate in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Law is the 25th most popular major in the country with 34,750 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, law graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $58,876 and had an average of $112,084 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 51 law graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,200 and $79,143 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 51 law graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality law programs that also have a lower cost than 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 law program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Law Schools for a Doctorate in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Law Schools for a Doctorate in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Law Schools for a Doctorate in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Law in South Dakota (With Aid)

#1

University of South Dakota

Vermillion, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$12,637 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of South Dakota. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Law Schools for a Doctorate in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid. Located in Vermillion, South Dakota, this medium-sized public school handed out 51 degrees to qualified doctorate’s law students in 2019-2020.

USD also made our “Best Law Doctor’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at USD are $12,637, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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