2023 Best Value Music Schools in South Dakota

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

Finding the Best Music School for You

In 2020-2021, 12 degrees and certificates were awarded to music students who went to a South Dakota college or university. This makes it the #45 most popular major in the state.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right 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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Music 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. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Music Colleges.

Best Music School

#1

University of South Dakota

Vermillion, SD

12 Degrees

#6 in Quality in South Dakota

$9,432 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of South Dakota the best value school in South Dakota for music students. USD is a moderately-sized public school located in the town of Vermillion.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at USD are $9,432 a year.

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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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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