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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 | 4,114 | 1335 | 0.1409 | |
| 2 | Johns Hopkins University | 2700 | 92000 | 0.9704 | 6,356 | 1543 | 0.0644 | |
| 3 | Colby College | 3800 | 91300 | 0.958 | 2,412 | 1497 | 0.0709 | |
| 4 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 5200 | 40700 | 0.8713 | 34,454 | 1435 | 0.1564 | |
| 5 | Wesleyan University | 5800 | 93700 | 0.9385 | 3,805 | 1484 | 0.1649 | |
| 6 | Sisseton Wahpeton College | 6400 | 13600 | 0.533 | 206 | 0 | 0 | |
| 7 | University of Houston-Clear Lake | 10300 | 10300 | 0 | 6,139 | 1070 | 0.9052 | |
| 8 | University of Tulsa | 11600 | 62900 | 0.8153 | 2,852 | 1328 | 0.6151 | |
| 9 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 11700 | 27800 | 0.5771 | 20,885 | 1420 | 0.1534 | |
| 10 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 12100 | 38800 | 0.6887 | 17,885 | 1470 | 0.1681 | |
| 11 | Florida Atlantic University | 12600 | 25800 | 0.5123 | 24,876 | 1130 | 0.6613 | |
| 12 | University of North Florida | 13100 | 22400 | 0.4157 | 13,735 | 1150 | 0.5324 | |
| 13 | SUNY Polytechnic Institute | 13500 | 13500 | 0 | 1,973 | 1189 | 0.8135 | |
| 14 | University of California-Santa Barbara | 13800 | 43000 | 0.679 | 23,181 | 1354 | 0.3297 | |
| 15 | Brown University | 13900 | 94000 | 0.8521 | 7,910 | 1535 | 0.0539 | |
| 16 | Duke University | 14300 | 93600 | 0.8474 | 6,523 | 1527 | 0.0571 | |
| 17 | University of Maine at Fort Kent | 15200 | 33200 | 0.543 | 1,464 | 980 | 0.9792 | |
| 18 | Northwest Missouri State University | 15600 | 38800 | 0.5992 | 5,241 | 1095 | 0.8609 | |
| 19 | University of West Georgia | 15900 | 24600 | 0.354 | 9,103 | 1040 | 0.5161 | |
| 20 | University of California-Los Angeles | 16300 | 36700 | 0.5554 | 33,475 | 1399 | 0.0897 | |
| 21 | Dakota Wesleyan University | 16500 | 45100 | 0.6343 | 771 | 1085 | 0.7338 | |
| 22 | The University of Texas at Austin | 16600 | 28000 | 0.4076 | 43,165 | 1356 | 0.2664 | |
| 23 | Wayne State University | 16800 | 32900 | 0.4891 | 16,012 | 1174 | 0.8116 | |
| 24 | Bennington College | 17200 | 89500 | 0.8079 | 797 | 1370 | 0.4453 | |
| 25 | Centre College | 17400 | 73000 | 0.7617 | 1,404 | 1314 | 0.5436 | |
| 26 | Lindsey Wilson College | 17500 | 47100 | 0.6287 | 1,722 | 0 | 0 | |
| 27 | Houston Christian University | 17600 | 56800 | 0.6901 | 2,899 | 1090 | 0.8444 | |
| 28 | Central Washington University | 19000 | 22700 | 0.1628 | 10,317 | 1045 | 0.9062 | |
| 29 | Life Pacific University | 19500 | 47800 | 0.5918 | 460 | 1020 | 0.958 | |
| 30 | Illinois College | 19700 | 55200 | 0.6423 | 937 | 1059 | 0.7819 | |
| 31 | Franklin and Marshall College | 20000 | 90300 | 0.7785 | 1,808 | 1396 | 0.2819 | |
| 32 | Columbia College | 20300 | 35800 | 0.433 | 1,391 | 950 | 0.9393 | |
| 33 | South Dakota State University | 20600 | 25200 | 0.1844 | 10,719 | 1120 | 0.9834 | |
| 33 | University of Southern California | 20600 | 75900 | 0.729 | 20,630 | 1492 | 0.0981 | |
| 35 | Albright College | 21100 | 49300 | 0.5719 | 1,230 | 1050 | 0.7633 | |
| 36 | East Texas Baptist University | 21700 | 47500 | 0.543 | 1,634 | 1025 | 0.5776 | |
| 37 | Northern Michigan University | 21900 | 33100 | 0.3384 | 6,684 | 1100 | 0.8402 | |
| 38 | University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | 22000 | 35300 | 0.3764 | 5,731 | 1174 | 0.9064 | |
| 39 | University of South Dakota | 22900 | 26000 | 0.1211 | 7,619 | 1120 | 0.9878 | |
| 40 | Concordia University-Nebraska | 23100 | 61100 | 0.6212 | 3,000 | 1130 | 0.8572 | |
| 41 | San Jose State University | 23400 | 41100 | 0.4308 | 28,008 | 1124 | 0.8461 | |
| 42 | Florida International University | 23700 | 23700 | 0 | 45,193 | 1175 | 0.5466 | |
| 42 | The University of Tennessee Southern | 23700 | 28100 | 0.1583 | 1,012 | 1075 | 0.8671 | |
| 44 | University of Kansas | 24700 | 43000 | 0.4266 | 22,085 | 1176 | 0.9348 | |
| 45 | Walsh University | 24900 | 46400 | 0.4633 | 1,523 | 1159 | 0.7074 | |
| 46 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 25300 | 30600 | 0.1732 | 10,200 | 1325 | 0.6507 | |
| 47 | University of Jamestown | 25400 | 34400 | 0.2616 | 1,049 | 1055 | 0.8808 | |
| 48 | University of Mount Saint Vincent | 26100 | 64300 | 0.5937 | 2,725 | 1100 | 0.8511 | |
| 49 | Oregon Institute of Technology | 27800 | 36400 | 0.236 | 5,160 | 1131 | 0.9502 | |
| 50 | Villanova University | 27900 | 88800 | 0.6855 | 7,004 | 1457 | 0.2698 | |
| 51 | Concordia University-Irvine | 28200 | 72300 | 0.6098 | 1,544 | 1172 | 0.6599 | |
| 51 | Cornell College | 28200 | 74800 | 0.623 | 1,094 | 1243 | 0.799 | |
| 53 | George Fox University | 29200 | 69400 | 0.5796 | 3,354 | 1193 | 0.9351 | |
| 54 | Southern Adventist University | 29800 | 46900 | 0.3637 | 2,929 | 1134 | 0.655 | |
| 55 | Mercy University | 30400 | 44500 | 0.317 | 6,774 | 1135 | 0.8584 | |
| 56 | Taylor University | 31100 | 59100 | 0.4733 | 2,503 | 1229 | 0.7353 | |
| 57 | Missouri Baptist University | 31700 | 53800 | 0.4116 | 4,958 | 843 | 0.686 | |
| 58 | The University of Montana-Western | 32300 | 42900 | 0.2473 | 1,335 | 990 | 0.9978 | |
| 59 | California Baptist University | 33500 | 65600 | 0.4893 | 8,417 | 1070 | 0.8488 | |
| 60 | Harding University | 33700 | 47800 | 0.296 | 3,536 | 1184 | 0.7052 | |
| 61 | Elizabethtown College | 33800 | 55300 | 0.3889 | 1,903 | 1214 | 0.7787 | |
| 62 | University of Vermont | 34500 | 66300 | 0.4788 | 12,276 | 1379 | 0.653 | |
| 63 | Trevecca Nazarene University | 34700 | 50900 | 0.3175 | 1,903 | 1085 | 0.6944 | |
| 64 | Andrews University | 35000 | 70100 | 0.5008 | 1,384 | 1143 | 0.8185 | |
| 65 | New York Institute of Technology | 35500 | 83600 | 0.5755 | 3,646 | 1298 | 0.8102 | |
| 66 | Seton Hill University | 35700 | 65000 | 0.4507 | 1,501 | 1134 | 0.7953 | |
| 67 | Saint Francis University | 39300 | 63100 | 0.3772 | 2,567 | 1150 | 0.7682 | |
| 68 | Saint Mary's College of California | 40700 | 81500 | 0.5004 | 1,954 | 1175 | 0.8653 | |
| 69 | Pace University | 40900 | 74800 | 0.4531 | 8,038 | 1260 | 0.7592 | |
| 70 | University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus | 41000 | 42500 | 0.0353 | 13,921 | 1119 | 0.7468 | |
| 71 | Rochester Christian University | 43300 | 45400 | 0.0473 | 1,161 | 970 | 0.9765 | |
| 72 | Quinnipiac University | 44900 | 79200 | 0.433 | 6,557 | 1245 | 0.7215 | |
| 73 | University of Delaware | 49000 | 61300 | 0.2017 | 20,026 | 1294 | 0.706 | |
| 74 | University of Iowa | 51000 | 53200 | 0.0404 | 22,738 | 1208 | 0.8362 | |
| 75 | Rowan University | 53600 | 53600 | 0 | 16,100 | 1219 | 0.7766 | |
| 76 | Mount St. Joseph University | 54300 | 54300 | 0 | 1,545 | 1143 | 0.5912 |
School data is from 2023–2024 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.