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2023 Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

9 Colleges
$13,004 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$66,712 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Business, Management & Marketing Master's Degree 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 9 schools in South Dakota to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for business, management and marketing students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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 Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Master's Degree Colleges.

Best South Dakota Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Business, Management & Marketing

#1

University of South Dakota

Vermillion, SD

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

USD graduate students pay an average of $7,118 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

USD did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Business, Management & Marketing Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota list.

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#2

Dakota State University

Madison, SD

The excellent master’s degree programs at Dakota State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value business, management and marketing schools in South Dakota. Located in the distant town of Madison, Dakota State is a public college with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Dakota State are $6,731 per year.

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#3

University of Sioux Falls

Sioux Falls, SD

The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Sioux Falls helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value business, management and marketing schools in South Dakota. Located in the medium-sized city of Sioux Falls, University of Sioux Falls is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at University of Sioux Falls are $7,110 a year.

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The excellent master’s degree programs at Northern State University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value business, management and marketing schools in South Dakota. Located in the remote town of Aberdeen, NSU is a public college with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at NSU are $6,736 per year.

NSU also made our Best Business, Management & Marketing Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota list, coming in at #3.

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Out of the 9 schools in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota State University landed the # 5 spot on the list. South Dakota State is a fairly large public school located in the town of Brookings.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at South Dakota State are $9,384 a year.

South Dakota State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Business, Management & Marketing Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota list.

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With a ranking of #6, Black Hills State University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for business, management and marketing students working on their master’s degree. Located in the town of Spearfish, BHSU is a public college with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at BHSU are $8,916 per year.

Full Business, Management & Marketing at Black Hills State University Report

Dakota Wesleyan University landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value master’s degree business, management and marketing programs. Dakota Wesleyan University is a small private not-for-profit school located in the remote town of Mitchell.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Dakota Wesleyan University are $15,300 a year.

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#9

Augustana University

Sioux Falls, SD

Augustana University ranked #9 on this year’s Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota list. Located in the medium-sized city of Sioux Falls, Augustana Sioux Falls is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

Augustana Sioux Falls graduate students pay an average of $36,696 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Augustana Sioux Falls not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Business, Management & Marketing Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota list.

Read full report on Business, Management & Marketing at Augustana University

Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 8,125
Minnesota 13,660
Iowa 8,473
Missouri 15,273
Nebraska 6,221
North Dakota 1,892

Business, Management & Marketing Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management 416,590
Accounting 99,265
Finance & Financial Management 57,778
General Business/Commerce 56,042
Marketing 52,916
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 43,382
Human Resource Management 28,787
Business Support & Assistant Services 19,119
Hospitality Management 17,689
Management Information Systems 13,680
Entrepreneurial Studies 11,319
International Business 9,101
Real Estate 6,547
General Sales & Marketing 5,923
Business/Managerial Economics 5,667
Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing 5,191
Other Business, Management & Marketing 4,822
Construction Management 3,846
Insurance 1,809
Taxation 1,547
Business/Corporate Communications 1,029
Telecommunications Management 55

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 9 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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