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2023 Best Value Wildlife Management Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$9,384 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Wildlife Management Master's Degree School for You

Wildlife Management is the #63 most popular major in South Dakota with 44 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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 Wildlife Management Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision.

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.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Wildlife Management Master's Degree Colleges.

Best Wildlife Management Master's Degree School

Our 2023 rankings named South Dakota State University the best value school in South Dakota for wildlife management students working on their master’s degree. 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 Wildlife Management Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota list.

Read full report on Wildlife Management at South Dakota State University

Best Value Wildlife Management Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 66
Minnesota 35
Iowa 4
North Dakota 12

Wildlife Management is one of 5 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Wildlife

Related Major Annual Graduates
Natural Resources Conservation 22,254
Natural Resource Management 2,933
Forestry 2,233
Fisheries Sciences 483
Natural Resources Conservation (Other) 151

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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Nicholas A. Tonelli.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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