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Best Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate Schools in South Dakota

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2023 Best Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate Schools in South Dakota

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Finding the Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate School for You

Today's nursing students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

The Best Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate Schools in South Dakota ranking is one of many tools that Nursing Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 1 schools in South Dakota to see which ones offered the best basic certificate programs for nursing students. To come up with a school's ranking, we analyzed numerous factors related to post-graduation wages, the quality of education offered by the school, average accumulated student debt, and more.

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The following school tops our list of the Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate Colleges.

Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate School

Our analysis found Lake Area Technical Institute to be the best school for practical nursing and nursing assistants students who want to pursue a basic certificate in South Dakota. LATI is a small public school located in the remote town of Watertown.

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Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Minnesota 22
North Dakota 70
Nebraska 0

Practical Nursing Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training 44,900
Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Care Assistant/Aide 34,557
Other Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants 4,817

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • 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 the rest 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).

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