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Best Value Human Services Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota

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2023 Best Value Human Services Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$7,118 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$40,488 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Human Services Master's Degree School for You

With 30 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, human services is the #23 most popular major in South Dakota.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Human Services 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 human services master's degree programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Human Services Master's Degree School

#1

University of South Dakota

Vermillion, SD

Our 2023 rankings named University of South Dakota the best value school in South Dakota for human services students working on their master’s degree. Located in the town of Vermillion, USD is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at USD are $7,118 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, USD is ranked #5 for overall quality for human services in South Dakota.

Read full report on Human Services at University of South Dakota

Best Value Human Services Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 10
Minnesota 420
Kansas 0
Nebraska 1

Human Services is one of 5 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Social Work 33,631
Public Administration 13,571
Public Policy 3,737
Community Organization & Advocacy 741
Other Public Administration 295

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 University of the Fraser Valley.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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