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2023 Best Value Allied Health Services Basic Certificate Schools in South Dakota
Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices
Finding the Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Basic Certificate School for You
In 2021-2022, allied health & medical assisting services students earned 123 degrees and certificates from a South Dakota school, making the subject the 7th in the state.
With all the trade school programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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.
To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Trade College Search has developed this Best Value Allied Health Services Basic Certificate Schools in South Dakota ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in South Dakota to see which basic certificate programs offered the best value experiences for medical assisting 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 an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Allied Health Services
Our analysis found Lake Area Technical Institute to be the best value school for allied health & medical assisting services students who want to pursue a basic certificate in South Dakota. LATI is a small public school located in the town of Watertown.
LATI undergraduate students pay an average of $6,718 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
LATI did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Allied Health Services Basic Certificate Trade Schools in South Dakota list.
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The excellent basic certificate programs at Western Dakota Technical Institute helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value allied health & medical assisting services schools in South Dakota. Western Dakota Tech is a small public school located in the rural area of Rapid City.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Western Dakota Tech are $8,333 a year.
Western Dakota Tech also made our Best Allied Health Services Basic Certificate Trade Schools in South Dakota list, coming in at #5.
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State | Degrees Awarded |
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Kansas | 945 |
Missouri | 862 |
Minnesota | 1,014 |
Iowa | 477 |
North Dakota | 29 |
Nebraska | 208 |
Majors Related to Medical Assisting
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services is one of 11 different types of trade school programs to choose from.
Medical Assisting Focus Areas
Most Popular Majors Related to Medical Assisting
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Health & Medical Administrative Services | 88,600 |
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants | 85,339 |
Allied Health Professions | 83,905 |
Health Sciences & Services | 36,762 |
Mental & Social Health Services | 30,331 |
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.