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2022 Best Vallue Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Doctorate in South Dakota For Those Making Over $110k

1 Ranked Colleges
7 Degrees Awarded
$16,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Vallue Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Doctorate in South Dakota For Those Making Over $110k

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 Vallue Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Doctorate in South Dakota For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Natural Resources & Conservation is the 26th most popular major in the country with 30,341 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, natural resources and conservation graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,196 and had an average of $25,077 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 101 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 natural resources and conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent natural resources and conservation programs, but they also 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 natural resources and conservation program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Vallue Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Doctorate in South Dakota For Those Making Over $110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota doctor’s degree natural resources & conservation students whose families make more than $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Resources & Conservation (Income Over $110k) in South Dakota

#1

South Dakota State University

Brookings, South Dakota
#1 in overall quality

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 Vallue Natural Resources & Conservation Schools for a Doctorate in South Dakota For Those Making Over $110k. This fairly large school is located in Brookings, South Dakota, and it awarded 7 doctorate’s natural resources and conservation degrees in 2019-2020.

South Dakota State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Natural Resources & Conservation Doctor’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.

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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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  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Lynn Betts.

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