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2023 Best Value Dental Support Services Undergraduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$7,525 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$23,891 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Dental Support Services Undergraduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 43 degrees and certificates were awarded to dental support services students who went to a South Dakota college or university. This makes it the #64 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Dental Support Services Undergraduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in South Dakota to see which ones offered the best value undergraduate certificate programs for dental support students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Dental Support Services Undergraduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota

Check out the dental support undergraduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best South Dakota Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking 1 to 4 Years in Dental Support Services

Our analysis found Lake Area Technical Institute to be the best value school for dental support services students who want to pursue a undergraduate certificate in South Dakota. Located in the remote town of Watertown, LATI is a public school with a small student population.

LATI undergraduate students pay an average of $6,718 in in-state tuition and fees each year. Dental Support majors at LATI take out an average of $9,378 in student loans while working on their Undergraduate Certificate.

LATI did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Dental Support Services Undergraduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota list.

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Out of the 2 schools in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Dakota Technical Institute landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the rural area of Rapid City, Western Dakota Tech is a public college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Western Dakota Tech are $8,332 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Western Dakota Tech is ranked #4 for overall quality for dental support in South Dakota.

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Best Value Dental Support Services Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 171
Minnesota 461
Kansas 133
Iowa 138
Nebraska 72
North Dakota 22

One of 30 majors within the area of study, dental support services has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Dental Support

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
Allied Health Professions 82,308

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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