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Considering a degree in Behavioral?
These rankings show the most affordable colleges for Behavioral majors who live in South Dakota.
Rankings are calculated by estimating the net price at every college offering Behavioral degrees for a "typical" middle class family living in the state of South Dakota.
Note: Net price is the actual cost of college paid after factoring in financial aid.The net prices displayed in these rankings are College Raptor's estimates.
“Typical” middle class family values used in the Net Price estimates on this page are:
| Rank | Institution | Typical Net Price | Sticker Price | % Savings | Undergraduates | Est. Median SAT | Acceptance Rate | Save |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Air Force Academy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4,124 | 1344 | 0.1393 | |
| 2 | Johns Hopkins University | 2700 | 92000 | 0.9704 | 6,356 | 1543 | 0.0644 | |
| 3 | Colby College | 5100 | 90200 | 0.9432 | 2,412 | 1497 | 0.0709 | |
| 4 | Wesleyan University | 5800 | 93700 | 0.9385 | 3,805 | 1405 | 0.1649 | |
| 5 | Sisseton Wahpeton College | 6800 | 12300 | 0.4453 | 215 | 0 | 0.8208 | |
| 6 | Franklin and Marshall College | 11400 | 90300 | 0.874 | 1,808 | 1396 | 0.2819 | |
| 7 | Duke University | 12000 | 93600 | 0.872 | 6,523 | 1539 | 0.0571 | |
| 8 | Brown University | 12200 | 94000 | 0.8699 | 7,910 | 1535 | 0.0539 | |
| 9 | University of Maine at Fort Kent | 12500 | 33400 | 0.6253 | 1,466 | 1078 | 0.4912 | |
| 10 | University of Houston-Clear Lake | 13200 | 51900 | 0.746 | 6,029 | 1075 | 0.9173 | |
| 11 | Lindsey Wilson College | 13500 | 60700 | 0.7771 | 1,738 | 1035 | 0 | |
| 11 | SUNY Polytechnic Institute | 13500 | 13500 | 0 | 1,919 | 1245 | 0.7844 | |
| 13 | Northwest Missouri State University | 15100 | 37700 | 0.6009 | 5,241 | 1075 | 0.8613 | |
| 14 | Central Washington University | 15900 | 27200 | 0.4149 | 10,033 | 1060 | 0.9061 | |
| 15 | University of North Florida | 16400 | 33000 | 0.5034 | 13,735 | 1150 | 0.5324 | |
| 16 | The University of Montana-Western | 16600 | 42900 | 0.6135 | 1,440 | 990 | 0.995 | |
| 17 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 16800 | 64800 | 0.7416 | 21,075 | 1420 | 0.1534 | |
| 18 | Wayne State University | 17000 | 46200 | 0.6321 | 16,173 | 1174 | 0.7786 | |
| 19 | Bennington College | 17200 | 89500 | 0.8078 | 797 | 1360 | 0.4453 | |
| 20 | Houston Christian University | 17600 | 56800 | 0.6901 | 2,899 | 1090 | 0.8458 | |
| 21 | Dakota Wesleyan University | 18300 | 45100 | 0.5945 | 767 | 1108 | 0.7277 | |
| 21 | University of Vermont | 18300 | 37800 | 0.5164 | 12,276 | 1379 | 0.653 | |
| 23 | Northern Michigan University | 19300 | 33100 | 0.417 | 6,684 | 1100 | 0.8402 | |
| 24 | University of West Georgia | 19400 | 48000 | 0.5962 | 9,157 | 1040 | 0.5161 | |
| 25 | Illinois College | 19800 | 55200 | 0.642 | 940 | 1054 | 0.7819 | |
| 26 | San Jose State University | 20300 | 33600 | 0.3955 | 28,008 | 0 | 0.8461 | |
| 26 | The University of Texas at Austin | 20300 | 27600 | 0.264 | 43,165 | 1348 | 0.2664 | |
| 26 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 20300 | 78700 | 0.7421 | 17,901 | 1470 | 0.1681 | |
| 29 | University of Southern California | 20400 | 75800 | 0.7312 | 20,630 | 1492 | 0.0981 | |
| 30 | South Dakota State University | 20600 | 25200 | 0.1838 | 10,728 | 1120 | 0.9834 | |
| 31 | University of Tulsa | 20800 | 62900 | 0.6693 | 2,852 | 1328 | 0.615 | |
| 32 | Centre College | 21000 | 73400 | 0.7135 | 1,356 | 1330 | 0.5434 | |
| 32 | University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus | 21000 | 42500 | 0.5064 | 13,921 | 1119 | 0.7468 | |
| 34 | Albright College | 21100 | 49300 | 0.5719 | 1,328 | 1050 | 0.8615 | |
| 35 | University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | 21900 | 53000 | 0.5873 | 5,731 | 1174 | 0.9064 | |
| 36 | East Texas Baptist University | 22300 | 58700 | 0.6198 | 1,634 | 1025 | 0.5776 | |
| 37 | Columbia College | 22900 | 39700 | 0.4237 | 1,268 | 950 | 0.9614 | |
| 37 | University of South Dakota | 22900 | 26000 | 0.1205 | 7,619 | 1120 | 0.9878 | |
| 39 | Concordia University-Nebraska | 23100 | 72400 | 0.681 | 2,934 | 1130 | 0.9004 | |
| 40 | The University of Tennessee Southern | 23700 | 28100 | 0.1578 | 946 | 1080 | 0.8271 | |
| 41 | Life Pacific University | 24000 | 50300 | 0.5224 | 396 | 1055 | 0.9395 | |
| 42 | Walsh University | 24900 | 46400 | 0.463 | 1,423 | 1189 | 0.7815 | |
| 43 | University of Jamestown | 25400 | 34400 | 0.2616 | 1,049 | 1055 | 0.8808 | |
| 44 | University of Mount Saint Vincent | 25600 | 64100 | 0.6007 | 2,398 | 1059 | 0.8464 | |
| 45 | University of Kansas | 25900 | 44000 | 0.4117 | 22,085 | 1176 | 0.9348 | |
| 46 | Concordia University-Irvine | 27500 | 80600 | 0.6591 | 1,554 | 1172 | 0.6599 | |
| 46 | Rowan University | 27500 | 41600 | 0.3386 | 16,199 | 1214 | 0.783 | |
| 48 | Villanova University | 27900 | 88800 | 0.6856 | 7,006 | 1457 | 0.2698 | |
| 49 | Cornell College | 28200 | 74800 | 0.6229 | 1,085 | 1243 | 0.8066 | |
| 49 | George Fox University | 28200 | 76800 | 0.6328 | 3,401 | 1193 | 0.9351 | |
| 51 | Mercy University | 29000 | 44500 | 0.3485 | 6,775 | 1074 | 0.8584 | |
| 52 | Southern Adventist University | 29900 | 46900 | 0.3634 | 2,827 | 1112 | 0.6661 | |
| 53 | Taylor University | 31100 | 59100 | 0.4731 | 2,503 | 1235 | 0.7353 | |
| 54 | Missouri Baptist University | 31700 | 53800 | 0.4113 | 4,958 | 843 | 0.686 | |
| 55 | University of California-Santa Barbara | 32000 | 59600 | 0.4628 | 23,181 | 1354 | 0.3296 | |
| 56 | Harding University | 32900 | 47000 | 0.3008 | 3,523 | 1193 | 0.3942 | |
| 57 | California Baptist University | 33500 | 65600 | 0.4891 | 8,417 | 1069 | 0.8535 | |
| 58 | Elizabethtown College | 33800 | 55900 | 0.3956 | 1,903 | 1214 | 0.7787 | |
| 59 | Pace University | 34600 | 74800 | 0.5373 | 8,038 | 1274 | 0.7592 | |
| 60 | Trevecca Nazarene University | 34700 | 50900 | 0.3172 | 1,903 | 1085 | 0.6944 | |
| 61 | New York Institute of Technology | 35500 | 83600 | 0.5753 | 3,646 | 1298 | 0.8102 | |
| 62 | Andrews University | 35800 | 62100 | 0.4235 | 1,312 | 1196 | 0.874 | |
| 63 | Florida International University | 36400 | 36800 | 0.0109 | 44,904 | 1175 | 0.5466 | |
| 64 | Seton Hill University | 37100 | 88000 | 0.5787 | 1,597 | 1180 | 0.7579 | |
| 65 | Saint Francis University | 38600 | 62800 | 0.3856 | 2,450 | 1150 | 0.7916 | |
| 66 | Oregon Institute of Technology | 39300 | 43400 | 0.0953 | 5,162 | 1131 | 0.9502 | |
| 67 | University of California-Los Angeles | 40400 | 81800 | 0.5067 | 33,471 | 1399 | 0.0897 | |
| 68 | Saint Mary's College of California | 40800 | 83400 | 0.511 | 1,955 | 1175 | 0.8856 | |
| 69 | Quinnipiac University | 41800 | 79200 | 0.4721 | 6,248 | 1209 | 0.77 | |
| 70 | Rochester Christian University | 43300 | 45400 | 0.047 | 1,144 | 980 | 0.653 | |
| 71 | Florida Atlantic University | 44400 | 44400 | 0 | 24,942 | 1130 | 0.6613 | |
| 72 | University of Delaware | 48300 | 61300 | 0.2134 | 19,287 | 1302 | 0.6924 | |
| 73 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 51000 | 84700 | 0.398 | 34,454 | 1435 | 0.1564 | |
| 74 | University of Iowa | 51100 | 53200 | 0.0401 | 22,738 | 1208 | 0.8362 | |
| 75 | Mount St. Joseph University | 54200 | 54200 | 0 | 1,545 | 1134 | 0.5915 | |
| 76 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 63500 | 63500 | 0 | 10,200 | 1346 | 0.6507 |
School data is from 2022–2023 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.