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2023 Best Value Legal Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in South Dakota

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

1 College
$7,118 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,077 Avg Salary

Out of the majors we analyze each year, legal professions was ranked 8th in South Dakota. In fact, 62 were awarded in the state in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best 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 Legal Professions Doctor'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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Legal Professions Doctor's Degree Colleges.

#1

University of South Dakota

Vermillion, SD

Our 2023 rankings named University of South Dakota the best value school in South Dakota for legal professions students working on their doctor’s degree. USD is a medium-sized public school located in the town of Vermillion.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at USD are $7,118 a year.

USD also made our Best Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in South Dakota list, coming in at #5.

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

State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 210
Missouri 1,062
Minnesota 821
Iowa 272
North Dakota 60
Nebraska 233

Major Annual Graduates
Law 36,216
Legal Research 6,659
Legal Professions (Other) 1,424
Legal Support Services 446
Non-Professional General Legal Studies 444

Related Major Annual Graduates
Public Administration & Social Service 53,252
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting 13,045
Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies 10,452
Military Technologies & Applied Sciences 1,613

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 The wub.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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