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2023 Best Value Nursing Basic Certificate Schools in South Dakota

Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 Schools Ranked
$6,718 Avg Tuition & Fees*

It's not easy to decide which nursing program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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 or bootcamp to be a better alternative for you.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Nursing Degree Search has created its Best Value Nursing Basic Certificate Schools in South Dakota ranking.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Top Value Nursing Basic Certificate Schools in South Dakota

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Lake Area Technical Institute

Watertown, South Dakota
18 Total Awards
$6,718 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Lake Area Technical Institute to be the best value school for nursing students who want to pursue a basic certificate in South Dakota. Watertown, South Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out basic certificates to 18 students in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at LATI are $6,718 per year.

LATI does offer online classes for certain degree levels. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 44% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

LATI also took the #1 spot in our Best Nursing Basic Certificate Schools in South Dakota rankings.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 1 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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