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2023 Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$9,517 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$99,011 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Nursing Graduate Certificate School for You

Nursing is one of the most popular subjects to study in South Dakota. With 94 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 3rd out of all the majors we track in the state.

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

The Best Value Nursing 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 nursing students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best South Dakota Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Nursing

#1

Mount Marty University

Yankton, SD

Our 2023 rankings named Mount Marty University the best value school in South Dakota for nursing students working on their graduate certificate. Mount Marty is a small private not-for-profit school located in the remote town of Yankton.

Mount Marty graduate students pay an average of $9,650 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Mount Marty is ranked #1 for overall quality for nursing in South Dakota.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means South Dakota State University is a great value for nursing students working on their graduate certificate. South Dakota State is a fairly large public school located in the remote town of Brookings.

South Dakota State graduate students pay an average of $9,384 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

South Dakota State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota list.

Read full report on Nursing at South Dakota State University

Best Value Nursing Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Nursing Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 2,207
Minnesota 5,809
Iowa 462
Kansas 311
Nebraska 414
North Dakota 100

One of 29 majors within the area of study, nursing has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Medicine 28,629
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions 24,774
Public Health 19,473
Health & Medical Administrative Services 17,335
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences 16,952

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 Aleksahgabrielle.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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