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2023 Best Value Clinical & Counseling Psychology Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$9,366 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$40,101 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology School for You

Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology is the #52 most popular major in South Dakota with 56 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Clinical & Counseling Psychology Schools in South Dakota to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in South Dakota to see which programs offered the best value experiences for clinical psychology students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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 Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Schools in South Dakota

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for clinical psychology majors pursuing a .

Best South Dakota Schools for Affordable Quality in Clinical & Counseling Psychology

#1

University of South Dakota

Vermillion, SD
$9,432 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of South Dakota to be the best value school for clinical, counseling and applied psychology students who want to pursue a degree in South Dakota. Located in the town of Vermillion, USD is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at USD are $9,432 per year.

Read full report on Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology at University of South Dakota

$9,299 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota State University landed the # 2 spot on the list. 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.

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 clinical psychology in South Dakota.

Full Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology at South Dakota State University Report

Best Value Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 370
Minnesota 2,482
Kansas 255
Iowa 102
Nebraska 194
North Dakota 69

Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology is one of 3 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
General Psychology 141,695
Child Development & Psychology 17,542
Other Psychology 2,683

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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