Colleges in South Dakota

South Dakota has 12 private and 7 public 4-year colleges that enroll 40,192 freshman students every year. The average tuition of public colleges is $7,100 (for in-state students) and $10,329 (for out-of-state students). The private colleges charge around $16,383 per year in tuition regardless of residency.

In the 2016-2017 academic year, the state of South Dakota provided $1,790,558 in financial aid to 1,322 students who enrolled in 4-year colleges for the first time as undergraduates, while the colleges themselves awarded $46,561,354 in grant and scholarships to 8,184 students.

South Dakota receives less than 1% of the total pell grant allotment from the federal government. In 2016-2017 academic year, 1,801 4-year colleges freshmen were awarded a total amount of $7,316,616 in pell grant ($3,968 per student on average) and 4,009 students received a total amount of $22,779,236 in the form of student loan from the federal government ($6,015 per student on average).