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2023 Best Value Agriculture Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$9,299 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$41,404 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Agriculture & Agriculture Operations School for You

Agriculture & Agriculture Operations is the #11 most popular major in South Dakota with 54 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Agriculture Schools in South Dakota to help you in your search for the best school for you.

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.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Colleges.

Best Agriculture & Agriculture Operations School

$9,299 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found South Dakota State University to be the best value school for agriculture and agriculture operations students who want to pursue a degree in South Dakota. South Dakota State is a fairly large public school located in the remote town of Brookings.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at South Dakota State are $9,299 a year.

South Dakota State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Agriculture Schools in South Dakota list.

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Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 307
Missouri 192
Minnesota 180
Iowa 269
North Dakota 40
Nebraska 108

Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Plant Sciences 912
Food Science Technology 692
Animal Science 596
Agricultural Economics & Business 410
General Agriculture 353
Agricultural Public Services 179
Agricultural Production 163
Soil Sciences 158
Other Agriculture 104
International Agriculture 46
Horticulture 15
Animal Services 8
Food Processing 2

Related Major Annual Graduates
Engineering 61,791
Computer & Information Sciences 60,971
Biological & Biomedical Sciences 28,851
Mathematics & Statistics 15,127
Physical Sciences 12,705

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

  • 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to W.carter.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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