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Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Schools in South Dakota

2023 Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$9,366 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Drama & Theater Arts School for You

With 32 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, drama and theater arts is the #75 most popular major in South Dakota.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Schools in South Dakota ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in South Dakota to see which programs offered the best value experiences for theater 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.

Best South Dakota Schools for Affordable Quality in Drama & Theater Arts

#1

University of South Dakota

Vermillion, SD
$9,432 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of South Dakota the best value school in South Dakota for drama and theater arts students. Located in the town of Vermillion, USD is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at USD are $9,432 a year.

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$9,299 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend South Dakota State University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Schools in South Dakota 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 undergraduate at South Dakota State are $9,299 a year.

South Dakota State also made our Best Drama & Theater Arts Schools in South Dakota list, coming in at #2.

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Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 294
Minnesota 231
Kansas 95
Iowa 160
Nebraska 104
North Dakota 9

One of 10 majors within the area of study, drama and theater arts has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Theater

Related Major Annual Graduates
Fine & Studio Arts 37,413
Design & Applied Arts 36,301
Music 25,910
Film, Video & Photographic Arts 16,778
General Visual & Performing Arts 6,355

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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Donald Judge.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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