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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 | Wesleyan University | 5800 | 93700 | 0.9385 | 3,805 | 1484 | 0.1649 | |
| 4 | Colby College | 5900 | 91300 | 0.935 | 2,412 | 1497 | 0.0709 | |
| 5 | Sisseton Wahpeton College | 6400 | 13600 | 0.533 | 206 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | University of Maine at Fort Kent | 8600 | 25300 | 0.6597 | 1,464 | 980 | 0.9792 | |
| 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 Virginia-Main Campus | 12000 | 38800 | 0.6912 | 17,885 | 1470 | 0.1681 | |
| 10 | Brown University | 13900 | 94000 | 0.8521 | 7,910 | 1535 | 0.0539 | |
| 11 | Duke University | 14300 | 93600 | 0.8474 | 6,523 | 1527 | 0.0571 | |
| 12 | Northwest Missouri State University | 15100 | 37700 | 0.6009 | 5,241 | 1095 | 0.8609 | |
| 13 | Dakota Wesleyan University | 16500 | 45100 | 0.6343 | 771 | 1085 | 0.7338 | |
| 13 | The University of Texas at Austin | 16500 | 28000 | 0.4111 | 43,165 | 1356 | 0.2664 | |
| 13 | University of Kansas | 16500 | 34900 | 0.5271 | 22,085 | 1176 | 0.9348 | |
| 16 | The University of Montana-Western | 16600 | 25600 | 0.3512 | 1,335 | 990 | 0.9978 | |
| 16 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 16600 | 64800 | 0.7438 | 20,885 | 1420 | 0.1534 | |
| 18 | Houston Christian University | 16900 | 56800 | 0.7024 | 2,899 | 1090 | 0.8444 | |
| 19 | Bennington College | 17100 | 89500 | 0.8094 | 797 | 1370 | 0.4453 | |
| 20 | Centre College | 17200 | 73000 | 0.7644 | 1,404 | 1314 | 0.5436 | |
| 21 | Lindsey Wilson College | 17500 | 47100 | 0.6287 | 1,722 | 0 | 0 | |
| 22 | Central Washington University | 19000 | 22700 | 0.1628 | 10,317 | 1045 | 0.9062 | |
| 23 | Life Pacific University | 19500 | 47800 | 0.5918 | 460 | 1020 | 0.958 | |
| 24 | Illinois College | 19700 | 55200 | 0.6438 | 937 | 1059 | 0.7819 | |
| 25 | Franklin and Marshall College | 20000 | 90300 | 0.7785 | 1,808 | 1396 | 0.2819 | |
| 26 | Columbia College | 20300 | 35800 | 0.433 | 1,391 | 950 | 0.9393 | |
| 27 | South Dakota State University | 20400 | 25200 | 0.1896 | 10,719 | 1120 | 0.9834 | |
| 28 | University of Southern California | 20600 | 75900 | 0.729 | 20,630 | 1492 | 0.0981 | |
| 29 | Albright College | 21000 | 49300 | 0.5739 | 1,230 | 1050 | 0.7633 | |
| 30 | East Texas Baptist University | 21700 | 47500 | 0.543 | 1,634 | 1025 | 0.5776 | |
| 31 | Northern Michigan University | 21900 | 33100 | 0.3384 | 6,684 | 1100 | 0.8402 | |
| 32 | University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | 22000 | 35300 | 0.3764 | 5,731 | 1174 | 0.9064 | |
| 33 | University of South Dakota | 22700 | 26000 | 0.1261 | 7,619 | 1120 | 0.9878 | |
| 34 | Concordia University-Nebraska | 23200 | 61100 | 0.62 | 3,000 | 1130 | 0.8572 | |
| 35 | San Jose State University | 23400 | 41100 | 0.4308 | 28,008 | 1124 | 0.8461 | |
| 36 | The University of Tennessee Southern | 23500 | 28100 | 0.163 | 1,012 | 1075 | 0.8671 | |
| 37 | Walsh University | 24900 | 46400 | 0.4634 | 1,523 | 1159 | 0.7074 | |
| 38 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 25300 | 30600 | 0.1732 | 10,200 | 1325 | 0.6507 | |
| 39 | University of Jamestown | 25400 | 34400 | 0.2616 | 1,049 | 1055 | 0.8808 | |
| 40 | University of Mount Saint Vincent | 26200 | 64300 | 0.5921 | 2,725 | 1100 | 0.8511 | |
| 41 | Oregon Institute of Technology | 27700 | 36400 | 0.2396 | 5,160 | 1131 | 0.9502 | |
| 42 | Villanova University | 27800 | 88800 | 0.6867 | 7,004 | 1457 | 0.2698 | |
| 43 | Cornell College | 28100 | 74800 | 0.6242 | 1,094 | 1243 | 0.799 | |
| 44 | Concordia University-Irvine | 28200 | 72300 | 0.6098 | 1,544 | 1172 | 0.6599 | |
| 45 | University of Iowa | 28800 | 31100 | 0.0733 | 22,738 | 1208 | 0.8362 | |
| 46 | George Fox University | 29200 | 69400 | 0.5796 | 3,354 | 1193 | 0.9351 | |
| 47 | Southern Adventist University | 29700 | 46900 | 0.3665 | 2,929 | 1134 | 0.655 | |
| 48 | University of West Georgia | 30300 | 46800 | 0.3525 | 9,103 | 1040 | 0.5161 | |
| 49 | Mercy University | 30400 | 44500 | 0.317 | 6,774 | 1135 | 0.8584 | |
| 50 | Taylor University | 31100 | 59100 | 0.4738 | 2,503 | 1229 | 0.7353 | |
| 51 | Missouri Baptist University | 31500 | 53800 | 0.414 | 4,958 | 843 | 0.686 | |
| 52 | University of California-Santa Barbara | 31600 | 59100 | 0.4651 | 23,181 | 1354 | 0.3297 | |
| 53 | University of North Florida | 31800 | 33000 | 0.0364 | 13,735 | 1150 | 0.5324 | |
| 54 | California Baptist University | 33400 | 65600 | 0.4908 | 8,417 | 1070 | 0.8488 | |
| 55 | Harding University | 33500 | 47800 | 0.2987 | 3,536 | 1184 | 0.7052 | |
| 56 | Elizabethtown College | 33800 | 55300 | 0.3889 | 1,903 | 1214 | 0.7787 | |
| 57 | University of Vermont | 34500 | 66300 | 0.4799 | 12,276 | 1379 | 0.653 | |
| 58 | Trevecca Nazarene University | 34600 | 50900 | 0.32 | 1,903 | 1085 | 0.6944 | |
| 59 | Andrews University | 35000 | 70100 | 0.5008 | 1,384 | 1143 | 0.8185 | |
| 60 | New York Institute of Technology | 35400 | 83600 | 0.5769 | 3,646 | 1298 | 0.8102 | |
| 61 | Seton Hill University | 35700 | 65000 | 0.4507 | 1,501 | 1134 | 0.7953 | |
| 62 | Florida International University | 36400 | 36800 | 0.0109 | 45,193 | 1175 | 0.5466 | |
| 63 | SUNY Polytechnic Institute | 38900 | 38900 | 0 | 1,973 | 1189 | 0.8135 | |
| 64 | Saint Francis University | 39200 | 63100 | 0.3788 | 2,567 | 1150 | 0.7682 | |
| 65 | University of California-Los Angeles | 40400 | 81800 | 0.5061 | 33,475 | 1399 | 0.0897 | |
| 66 | Saint Mary's College of California | 40600 | 81500 | 0.5017 | 1,954 | 1175 | 0.8653 | |
| 67 | Wayne State University | 40700 | 46200 | 0.1191 | 16,012 | 1174 | 0.8116 | |
| 68 | Pace University | 40900 | 74800 | 0.4531 | 8,038 | 1260 | 0.7592 | |
| 69 | University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus | 41000 | 42500 | 0.0353 | 13,921 | 1119 | 0.7468 | |
| 70 | Rochester Christian University | 43200 | 45400 | 0.0502 | 1,161 | 970 | 0.9765 | |
| 71 | Florida Atlantic University | 44400 | 44400 | 0 | 24,876 | 1130 | 0.6613 | |
| 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 Michigan-Ann Arbor | 50800 | 84700 | 0.4003 | 34,454 | 1435 | 0.1564 | |
| 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.