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2023 Best Value Hospitality Management Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$11,292 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$32,016 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Hospitality Management School for You

Hospitality Management is the #126 most popular major in South Dakota with 10 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Hospitality Management Schools in South Dakota to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in South Dakota to see which ones offered the best value programs for hospitality students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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.

2023 Best Value Hospitality Management Schools in South Dakota

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Hospitality Management Colleges.

Best South Dakota Schools for Affordable Quality in Hospitality Management

$9,299 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named South Dakota State University the best value school in South Dakota for hospitality management students. South Dakota State is a fairly large public school located in the town of Brookings.

South Dakota State undergraduate students pay an average of $9,299 in in-state tuition and fees each year. Hospitality majors at South Dakota State take out an average of $26,000 in student loans while working on their egree.

South Dakota State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Hospitality Management Schools in South Dakota list.

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$8,916 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Black Hills State University is a great value for hospitality management students. Located in the town of Spearfish, BHSU is a public college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at BHSU are $8,916 a year.

Full Hospitality Management at Black Hills State University Report

Best Value Hospitality Management Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Hospitality Management Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 174
Minnesota 34
Kansas 85
Iowa 248
Nebraska 125
North Dakota 8

Hospitality Management is one of 21 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management 416,590
Accounting 99,265
Finance & Financial Management 57,778
General Business/Commerce 56,042
Marketing 52,916

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 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 Bblackpsu.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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