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Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Undergraduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota

2023 Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Undergraduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

4 Colleges
$7,556 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$36,677 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Undergraduate Certificate School for You

Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants is the most popular major in South Dakota with 245 degrees and certificates handed out in 2021-2022.

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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Trade College Search has created the Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Undergraduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in South Dakota to see which undergraduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for practical nursing 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.

2023 Best Value Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Undergraduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota

Check out the practical nursing undergraduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best South Dakota Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking 1 to 4 Years in Nursing & Nursing Assistants

Our 2023 rankings named Lake Area Technical Institute the best value school in South Dakota for practical nursing & nursing assistants students working on their undergraduate certificate. 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. After completing their Undergraduate Certificate, practical nursing graduates from LATI carry an average student debtload of $12,839.

LATI did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Nursing & Nursing Assistants Undergraduate Certificate Trade Schools in South Dakota list.

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#2

Southeast Technical College

Sioux Falls, SD

The excellent undergraduate certificate programs at Southeast Technical College helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value practical nursing & nursing assistants schools in South Dakota. Southeast Tech is a small public school located in the rural area of Sioux Falls.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Southeast Tech are $7,650 per year. The average amount in student loans that practical nursing majors at Southeast Tech take out while working on their Undergraduate Certificate is $12,840.

Southeast Tech also took the #3 spot in our Best Nursing & Nursing Assistants Undergraduate Certificate Trade Schools in South Dakota rankings.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mitchell Technical College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Undergraduate Certificate Schools in South Dakota list. Mitchell Tech is a small public school located in the rural area of Mitchell.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Mitchell Tech are $7,524 a year. Practical Nursing majors at Mitchell Tech take out an average of $10,785 in student loans while working on their Undergraduate Certificate.

Mitchell Tech also made our Best Nursing & Nursing Assistants Undergraduate Certificate Trade Schools in South Dakota list, coming in at #1.

Read full report on Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants at Mitchell Technical College

Out of the 4 schools in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Dakota Technical Institute landed the # 4 spot on the list. 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. While working on their Undergraduate Certificate, practical nursing majors at Western Dakota Tech accumulate an average of around $13,314 in student debt.

Western Dakota Tech not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best Nursing & Nursing Assistants Undergraduate Certificate Trade Schools in South Dakota list.

Full Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants at Western Dakota Technical Institute Report

Best Value Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 3,821
Missouri 962
Minnesota 2,176
Iowa 1,762
North Dakota 256
Nebraska 346

Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants is one of 11 different types of trade school programs to choose from.

Practical Nursing Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training 45,031
Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Care Assistant/Aide 35,655
Other Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants 4,653

Majors Similar to Practical Nursing

Related Major Annual Graduates
Health & Medical Administrative Services 88,600
Allied Health Professions 83,905
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 83,587
Health Sciences & Services 36,762
Mental & Social Health Services 30,331

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 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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