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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

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

In 2020-2021, general education students earned 87 degrees and certificates from a South Dakota school, making the subject the 5th in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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 General Education Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota to help you in your search for the best school for you.

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.

Check out the education master's degree programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best General Education Master's Degree School

#1

Augustana University

Sioux Falls, SD

87 Master's Degrees

#2 in Quality in South Dakota

$36,696 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Augustana University the best value school in South Dakota for general education students working on their master’s degree. Located in the city of Sioux Falls, Augustana Sioux Falls is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Augustana Sioux Falls are $36,696 a year.

Augustana Sioux Falls did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best General Education Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota list.

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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 KOKUYO.

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