2023 Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate School for You

Business, Management & Marketing is one of the most popular subjects to study in South Dakota. With 1,444 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 2nd out of all the majors we track in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

The Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in South Dakota to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for business, management and marketing 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 Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for business, management and marketing majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best South Dakota Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Business, Management & Marketing

#1

University of South Dakota

Vermillion, SD

13 Graduate Certificates

#2 in Quality in South Dakota

$7,118 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of South Dakota the best value school in South Dakota for business, management and marketing students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the distant 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.

USD did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota list.

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#2

Dakota Wesleyan University

Mitchell, SD

24 Graduate Certificates

#5 in Quality in South Dakota

$15,300 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, Dakota Wesleyan University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Dakota Wesleyan University is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the remote town of Mitchell.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Dakota Wesleyan University are $15,300 per year.

Dakota Wesleyan University also made our Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota list, coming in at #5.

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Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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 Amit Savargaonkar.

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