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Best Value Music Bachelor's Degree Schools in South Dakota

2023 Best Value Music Bachelor's Degree Schools in South Dakota

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$9,366 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$26,068 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Music Bachelor's Degree School for You

Music is the #73 most popular major in South Dakota with 33 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Music Bachelor's Degree 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 bachelor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for music 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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Best South Dakota Schools for Affordable Quality for a Bachelor's in Music

#1

University of South Dakota

Vermillion, SD

Our 2023 rankings named University of South Dakota the best value school in South Dakota for music students working on their bachelor’s degree. USD is a moderately-sized public school located in the town of Vermillion.

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

USD also made our Best Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in South Dakota list, coming in at #5.

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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 Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in South Dakota list. Located in the town of Brookings, South Dakota State is a public college with a large student population.

South Dakota State undergraduate students pay an average of $9,299 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

South Dakota State not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in South Dakota list.

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Best Value Music Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 372
Minnesota 262
Kansas 189
Iowa 227
Nebraska 129
North Dakota 76

One of 10 majors within the area of study, music has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Fine & Studio Arts 37,413
Design & Applied Arts 36,301
Drama & Theater Arts 17,341
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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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