2023 Best Value Healthcare Undergraduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota
Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
It's not easy to decide which healthcare program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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 and bootcamps that offer fast-track entry to many fields.
The Best Value Healthcare Undergraduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota ranking is one of many tools that Healthcare Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 6 schools in South Dakota to see which undergraduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for healthcare students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
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Top Value Healthcare Undergraduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota
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Our analysis found Lake Area Technical Institute to be the best value school for healthcare students who want to pursue a undergraduate certificate in South Dakota. LATI is located in Watertown, South Dakota and has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 79 undergraduate certificates to qualified students.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at LATI are $6,718 per year. Undergraduate Certificate recipients from this school accumulate an average of $14,587 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online classes at LATI. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 44% took at least some of their classes online.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, LATI is ranked #2 for overall quality in South Dakota.
The excellent undergraduate certificate programs at Dakota State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value healthcare schools in South Dakota. This small public school is located in Madison, South Dakota, and it awarded 7 undergraduate certificates in 2020-2021.
Dakota State undergraduate students pay an average of $12,735 in tuition and fees each year.
Dakota State does offer online classes for certain degree levels. In 2019-2020 about 73% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
Dakota State also took the #1 spot in our Best Healthcare Undergraduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota rankings.
The excellent undergraduate certificate programs at Southeast Technical College helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value healthcare schools in South Dakota. Located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the small public school awarded 160 diplomas to qualifed undergraduate certificate students in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Southeast Tech are $7,650 per year. Undergraduate Certificate recipients from this school accumulate an average of $20,041 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online classes at Southeast Tech. In 2019-2020 about 45% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
Southeast Tech did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Healthcare Undergraduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota list.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Mitchell Technical College. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Healthcare Undergraduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota list. Located in Mitchell, South Dakota, the small public school awarded 17 diplomas to qualifed undergraduate certificate students in 2020-2021.
Mitchell Tech undergraduate students pay an average of $7,524 in tuition and fees each year. Undergraduate Certificate recipients from this school accumulate an average of $8,822 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.
Mitchell Tech does offer online classes for certain degree levels. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 27% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
Mitchell Tech not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Healthcare Undergraduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota list.
The excellent undergraduate certificate programs at Western Dakota Technical Institute helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value healthcare schools in South Dakota. Western Dakota Tech is located in Rapid City, South Dakota and has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 84 undergraduate certificates to qualified students.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at Western Dakota Tech are $8,332 a year. On average, undergraduate certificate students take out $17,540 in loans while pursuing their degree.
Some students may be able to take online classes at Western Dakota Tech. In fact, around 43% of the undergraduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
Western Dakota Tech not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best Healthcare Undergraduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota list.
National American University - Rapid City ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Healthcare Undergraduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota list. Rapid City, South Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out undergraduate certificates to 15 students in 2020-2021.
National American University - Rapid City undergraduate students pay an average of $15,660 in tuition and fees each year. Undergraduate Certificate recipients from this school accumulate an average of $27,626 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.
Since National American University - Rapid City is primarily an online school, it is an excellent choice for undergraduate students who need more flexibility than what is offered at some other schools.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 6 schools only.
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
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