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2023 Best Value Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$7,118 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$64,635 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate School for You

Out of the majors we analyze each year, business administration and management was the most popular one in South Dakota. In total, 204 people earned a degree or certificate in the field from a school in South Dakota.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Value Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in South Dakota to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for business administration students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best South Dakota Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Business Administration & Management

#1

University of South Dakota

Vermillion, SD

Our 2023 rankings named University of South Dakota the best value school in South Dakota for business administration and management students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the town of Vermillion, USD is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

USD graduate students pay an average of $7,118 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

USD also made our Best Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota list, coming in at #2.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Dakota Wesleyan University is a great value for business administration and management students working on their graduate certificate. Dakota Wesleyan University is a small private not-for-profit school located in the remote town of Mitchell.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Dakota Wesleyan University are $15,300 a year.

Dakota Wesleyan University also took the #5 spot in our Best Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota rankings.

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Best Value Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 3,544
Minnesota 3,555
Iowa 1,351
Kansas 1,486
Nebraska 1,021
North Dakota 365

Business Administration & Management is one of 20 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 31,701
Accounting 19,309
Human Resource Management 12,117
General Business/Commerce 9,137
Finance & Financial Management 5,784

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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