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2023 Best Value General Biology Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$8,251 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$38,743 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Biology Master's Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, 31 degrees and certificates were awarded to general biology students who went to a South Dakota college or university. This makes it the #22 most popular major in the state.

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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value General Biology Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in South Dakota to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for biology 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.

2023 Best Value General Biology Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota

The following schools top our list of the Best Value General Biology Master's Degree Colleges.

Best South Dakota Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in General Biology

#1

University of South Dakota

Vermillion, SD

Our 2023 rankings named University of South Dakota the best value school in South Dakota for general biology students working on their master’s degree. Located in the distant town of Vermillion, USD is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at USD are $7,118 a year.

USD also took the #5 spot in our Best General Biology Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota rankings.

Full General Biology at University of South Dakota Report

The excellent master’s degree programs at South Dakota State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value general biology schools 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 graduate student at South Dakota State are $9,384 a year.

South Dakota State not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best General Biology Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota list.

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Best Value General Biology Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value General Biology Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 190
Minnesota 36
Iowa 62
Kansas 52
Nebraska 101
North Dakota 12

General Biology is one of 14 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology 3,221
Physiology & Pathology Sciences 2,488
Biomathematics & Bioinformatics 2,290
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology 1,964
Biological & Biomedical Sciences (Other) 1,922

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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