2023 Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices

With all the teaching programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school or bootcamp that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

The Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota ranking is one of many tools that Teaching Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in South Dakota to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for teaching students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Top Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

University of South Dakota

Vermillion, South Dakota

1 Total Awards

#2 in Quality in South Dakota

$12,768 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of South Dakota the best value school in South Dakota for teaching students working on their graduate certificate. Vermillion, South Dakota is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out graduate certificates to 1 students in 2020-2021.

USD graduate students pay an average of $12,768 in tuition and fees each year.

One thing to take note of is that USD does offer online graduate classes in some areas. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 58% took at least some of their classes online.

USD not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota list.

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#2

South Dakota State University

Brookings, South Dakota

1 Total Awards

#1 in Quality in South Dakota

$16,917 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in South Dakota that were part of this year’s value ranking, South Dakota State University landed the # 2 spot on the list. South Dakota State is located in Brookings, South Dakota and has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 graduate certificates to qualified students.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at South Dakota State are $16,917 a year.

Some students may be able to take online graduate classes at South Dakota State. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 45% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, South Dakota State is ranked #1 for overall quality in South Dakota.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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