2023 Best Value Wildlife Management Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Wildlife Management 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 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 Colleges.

Best Wildlife Management School

#1

South Dakota State University

Brookings, SD

41 Degrees

#2 in Quality in South Dakota

$9,299 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found South Dakota State University to be the best value school for wildlife management students who want to pursue a degree in South Dakota. South Dakota State is a large public school located in the remote town of Brookings.

South Dakota State undergraduate students pay an average of $9,299 in in-state tuition and fees each year. The average amount in student loans that wildlife majors at South Dakota State take out is $24,874.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, South Dakota State is ranked #2 for overall quality for wildlife in South Dakota.

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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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