2023 Best Value Public Health Schools in South Dakota
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Public Health School for You
With 45 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, public health is the #12 most popular major in South Dakota.
When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for healthcare students. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.
The Best Value Public Health Schools in South Dakota ranking is one of many tools that Healthcare Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in South Dakota to see which ones offered the best value programs for public health students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
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 Public Health
Our 2023 rankings named University of South Dakota the best value school in South Dakota for public health students. Located in the distant town of Vermillion, USD is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at USD are $9,432 a year.
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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 Public Health Schools in South Dakota list. South Dakota State is a large public school located in the remote town of Brookings.
In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at South Dakota State are $9,299 per year.
South Dakota State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Public Health Schools in South Dakota list.
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State | Degrees Awarded |
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Minnesota | 962 |
Iowa | 310 |
Missouri | 888 |
Nebraska | 149 |
Kansas | 107 |
North Dakota | 46 |
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Public Health Related Majors for Public Health
Public Health is one of 30 different types of healthcare programs to choose from.
Public Health Focus Areas
Major | Annual Graduates |
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General Public Health | 22,778 |
Public Health Education and Promotion | 4,563 |
Other Public Health | 3,432 |
Health Services Administration | 3,119 |
Community Health and Preventive Medicine | 2,272 |
International Public Health/International Health | 1,599 |
Environmental Health | 1,344 |
Behavioral Aspects of Health | 814 |
Health/Medical Physics | 258 |
Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene | 211 |
Maternal and Child Health | 163 |
Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality | 43 |
Most Popular Majors Related to Public Health
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Nursing | 322,592 |
Health & Medical Administrative Services | 89,359 |
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services | 84,492 |
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants | 84,274 |
Allied Health Professions | 82,308 |
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 Article 25 Flickr.
More about our data sources and methodologies.