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Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota

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2023 Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$9,384 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$48,625 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Natural Resources & Conservation Master's Degree School for You

Natural Resources & Conservation is the #22 most popular major in South Dakota with 9 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 Natural Resources & Conservation Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota ranking.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

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

Best Natural Resources & Conservation Master's Degree School

Our 2023 rankings named South Dakota State University the best value school in South Dakota for natural resources and conservation students working on their master’s degree. South Dakota State is a fairly large public school located in the 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 Natural Resources & Conservation Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota list.

Full Natural Resources & Conservation at South Dakota State University Report

Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 24
Missouri 67
Minnesota 37
Iowa 17
North Dakota 16
Nebraska 22

Natural Resources & Conservation Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Natural Resources Conservation 3,724
Natural Resource Management 1,073
Forestry 486
Wildlife Management 323
Fisheries Sciences 106
Natural Resources Conservation (Other) 32

Majors Similar to Natural Resources & Conservation

Related Major Annual Graduates
Engineering 61,791
Computer & Information Sciences 60,971
Biological & Biomedical Sciences 28,851
Mathematics & Statistics 15,127
Physical Sciences 12,705

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 Lynn Betts.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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