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2023 Best Value Curriculum & Instruction Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$14,260 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$45,862 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Curriculum & Instruction School for You

With 54 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, curriculum and instruction is the #12 most popular major in South Dakota.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Curriculum & Instruction Schools in South Dakota ranking. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in South Dakota to see which programs offered the best value experiences for curriculum students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Curriculum & Instruction Schools in South Dakota

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Curriculum & Instruction Colleges.

Best South Dakota Schools for Affordable Quality in Curriculum & Instruction

$8,845 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Northern State University the best value school in South Dakota for curriculum and instruction students. Located in the town of Aberdeen, NSU is a public college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at NSU are $8,845 a year.

NSU did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Curriculum & Instruction Schools in South Dakota list.

Read full report on Curriculum & Instruction at Northern State University

$9,299 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Curriculum & Instruction Schools in South Dakota list. South Dakota State is a large public school located in the remote town of Brookings.

South Dakota State undergraduate students pay an average of $9,299 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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

Read full report on Curriculum & Instruction at South Dakota State University

#3

Mount Marty University

Yankton, SD
$29,980 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mount Marty University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Curriculum & Instruction Schools in South Dakota list. Mount Marty is a small private not-for-profit school located in the town of Yankton.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Mount Marty are $29,980 a year.

Mount Marty did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Curriculum & Instruction Schools in South Dakota list.

Full Curriculum & Instruction at Mount Marty University Report

$8,916 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Black Hills State University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Curriculum & Instruction Schools in South Dakota list. Located in the town of Spearfish, BHSU is a public school with a small student population.

BHSU undergraduate students pay an average of $8,916 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Curriculum & Instruction at Black Hills State University

Best Value Curriculum & Instruction Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Curriculum & Instruction Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 526
Minnesota 348
Iowa 129
Kansas 350
Nebraska 1,161
North Dakota 36

One of 14 majors within the area of study, curriculum and instruction has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Educational Administration 45,458
Teacher Education Grade Specific 34,451
Special Education 25,158
General Education 21,189
Teacher Education Subject Specific 20,616

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 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 Disarnot.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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