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2023 Best Value Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in South Dakota

Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 Schools Ranked
$16,917 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 help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Nursing Degree Search has developed this Best Value Nursing Doctor's Degree 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 Doctor's Degree Schools in South Dakota

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

South Dakota State University

Brookings, South Dakota
8 Total Awards
$16,917 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found South Dakota State University to be the best value school for nursing students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in South Dakota. South Dakota State University is a fairly large public school located in Brookings, South Dakota that handed out 8 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

South Dakota State graduate students pay an average of $16,917 in tuition and fees each year.

You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at South Dakota State. In 2019-2020 about 45% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

South Dakota State also took the #1 spot in our Best Nursing Doctor’s Degree 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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