2023 Best Value Communication & Media Studies Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Communication & Media Studies School for You

In 2020-2021, 22 degrees and certificates were awarded to communication and media studies students who went to a South Dakota college or university. This makes it the #33 most popular major in the state.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Communication & Media Studies Schools in South Dakota to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in South Dakota to see which programs offered the best value experiences for communications students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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 Communication & Media Studies Schools in South Dakota

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Communication & Media Studies Colleges.

Best South Dakota Schools for Affordable Quality in Communication & Media Studies

#1

University of South Dakota

Vermillion, SD

4 Degrees

#6 in Quality in South Dakota

$9,432 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of South Dakota the best value school in South Dakota for communication and media studies students. Located in the town of Vermillion, USD is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

USD undergraduate students pay an average of $9,432 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#2

South Dakota State University

Brookings, SD

18 Degrees

#3 in Quality in South Dakota

$9,299 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means South Dakota State University is a great value for communication and media studies students. South Dakota State is a fairly large public school located in the 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 Communication & Media Studies Schools in South Dakota list.

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Majors Related to Communications

One of 5 majors within the area of study, communication and media studies has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Majors Related to Communications

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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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