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2022 Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Making $30-$48k

1 Ranked Colleges
19 Degrees Awarded
$16,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Bachelor's in South Dakota For Those Making $30-$48k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Natural Resource Management is the 176th most popular major in the country with 2,905 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, natural resource management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $36,179 and had an average of $26,799 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 19 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great natural resource management programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the natural resource management program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Resource Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resource Management (Income $30-$48k) in South Dakota

#1

South Dakota State University

Brookings, South Dakota
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Resource Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota For Those Making $30-$48k 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 19 bachelors’s resource management degrees in 2019-2020.

South Dakota State also took the #1 spot in our “Best Natural Resource Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” ranking. The yearly cost to attend South Dakota State University is $16,273 for South Dakota Bachelor’s Degree Resource Management students whose families make $30-$48k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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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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