Graduate Programs | South Dakota State University

2024 Graduate Tuition & Fees

The following table and chart describe 2023-2024 graduate tuition & fees at South Dakota State University with tuition changes over the last 5 years. Each cost is an average amount over the offered programs. For South Dakota residents, the tuition & fees are $9,384 and $16,917 for non-South Dakota residents. The tuition per credit hours for part-time students (or full-time students who taking extra credits) is $340 for South Dakota residents and $654 for out-of-state students.

Data source: IPEDS (integrated Postsecondary Education Dta System)

Updated with 2023-2024 tuition (Last update: 03/01/2024)

2024 Graduate School Tuition, Fees, and Living Costs
	In-State	Out-of-State
Tuition	$8,164	$15,697
Fees	$1,220	$1,220
Cost per Credit	$340	$654
Books & Supplies	$1,200
Room & Board	$9,562 (On-Campus) / $10,490 (Off-Campus)
Personal Expenses	$4,683 (On-Campus) / $5,509 (Off-Campus)
On-Campus Total	$24,829	$32,362
Off-Campus Total	$26,583	$34,116

Graduate Program Tuition Changes (2020-2024)
	2019-2020	2020-2021	2021-2022	2022-2023	2023-2024
In-State	$9,217	$9,285	$9,384	$9,384	$9,384
Out-of-State	$16,675	$16,743	$16,917	$16,917	$16,917

Graduate Program Overview

South Dakota State University is a four-years, public school located in Brookings, South Dakota. It offers graduate degree programs as well as undergraduate degree programs.

For the academic year 2023-2024, the average graduate school tuition & fees is $9,384 for South Dakota residents and $16,917 for out-of-state students.

It offers 108 graduate programs and some programs are offered through distance learning.

Graduate Programs Key Facts
School Name	South Dakota State University
Type	Four-years, Public
Address	1004 Campanile Ave, Brookings, SD
Graduate School Students	1,618 students 406 students enrolled online exclusively
Tuition & Fees (2023-2024)	In-State$9,384 Out-of-State$16,917
Student to Faculty	18:1 (5.56%)
Number of Graduate Programs	Total 108 Graduate Programs 53 Master's, 28 Doctorate, 27 Post graduate certificates

Conferred Degrees and Graduate Programs by Major

South Dakota State University offers Masters, Doctorate, Post-Bachelor's Certificate, Post-Master's Certificate graduate degree/certificate programs through 108 major areas - 53 Master's , 28 Doctorate , 23 Post-Bachelor', 4 Post-Master'. 341 students have been conferred Master's degree and 157 students have received Doctorate degree last year.The following table summarizes the total number of completers by degree and gender.

Total Number of Conferred Graduate Degree
	Master's	Doctorate	Post-Bachelor's	Post-Master's
Total	341	157	26	3
Men	127	54	8	-
Women	214	103	18	3

Below, you can check major programs and concentration for each area of study with offered degrees and completers. ^ONLINE denotes the program offered by distance learning (online degree). You may want to see all graduate schools offering a major program by following the link on the title of the program.

Agriculture

what is Agriculture program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Agricultural Production Operations	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED
Animal Sciences	-	-	-	NOT OFFERED
Food Technology and Processing	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED
Range Science and Management	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED

Natural Resources and Conservation

what is Natural Resources and Conservation program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Environmental Studies	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED

Education

what is Education program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Institutional Research	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED
College Student Counseling and Personnel Services	-	NOT OFFERED	13	NOT OFFERED
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods, Oth (other)	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED

Engineering Technology

what is Engineering Technology program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Drafting and Design Technology/Technician	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED
Engineering/Industrial Management	-	NOT OFFERED	2	NOT OFFERED

Work and Family Studies

what is Work and Family Studies program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Family Resource Management Studies	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED
Consumer Services and Advocacy	-	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED
Foods, Nutrition, and Wellness Studies	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	5	NOT OFFERED

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

what is Biological and Biomedical Sciences program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Biotechnology	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED

Mathematics and Statistics

what is Mathematics and Statistics program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Mathematics	-	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED
Statistics	-	NOT OFFERED	4	NOT OFFERED

Human Services

what is Human Services program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Community Organization and Advocacy	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED

Social Sciences

what is Social Sciences program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Geographic Information Science and Cartography	-	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED
Sociology	-	-	2	NOT OFFERED

Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences

what is Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Public Health	-	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED

Business

what is Business program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Management Science	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED
Real Estate	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED
General Merchandising, Sales, and Related Marketing Operations (other)	-	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED

Agriculture

what is Agriculture program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Animal Sciences	7	-	-	NOT OFFERED
Dairy Science	3	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Food Science	2	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Agronomy and Crop Science	8	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

Natural Resources and Conservation

what is Natural Resources and Conservation program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Natural Resources/Conservation	-	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management	1	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Management	6	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

Architecture

what is Architecture program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology	12	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

Communication and Journalism

what is Communication and Journalism program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Mass Communication/Media Studies	5	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Communication and Media Studies (other)	5	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Journalism (other)	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

Computer and Information Sciences

what is Computer and Information Sciences program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Computer and Information Sciences	6	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

Education

what is Education program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Curriculum and Instruction	5	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Educational Leadership and Administration	4	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services	14	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
College Student Counseling and Personnel Services	13	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED
Agricultural Teacher Education	7	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Family and Consumer Sciences/Home Economics Teacher Education	2	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

Engineering

what is Engineering program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Engineering	2	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Agricultural Engineering	4	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Civil Engineering	13	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Electrical and Electronics Engineering	7	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Mechanical Engineering	10	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

Engineering Technology

what is Engineering Technology program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Engineering/Industrial Management	1	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED

Work and Family Studies

what is Work and Family Studies program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Consumer Services and Advocacy	1	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED
Human Nutrition	14	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Family and Community Services	1	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services (other)	1	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

English Language and Literature

what is English Language and Literature program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
English Language and Literature	6	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

what is Biological and Biomedical Sciences program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Biology/Biological Sciences	3	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Biomedical Sciences	9	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Microbiology	2	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

Mathematics and Statistics

what is Mathematics and Statistics program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Mathematics	5	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED
Statistics	1	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED

Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies

what is Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Geography and Environmental Studies	1	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

Parks, Recreation, Leisure, and Fitness Studies

what is Parks, Recreation, Leisure, and Fitness Studies program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Parks, Recreation and Leisure Facilities Management	10	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

Physical Sciences

what is Physical Sciences program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Chemistry	12	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

Psychology

what is Psychology program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Counseling Psychology	20	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Industrial and Organizational Psychology	1	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

Social Sciences

what is Social Sciences program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Economics	11	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Geography	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Geographic Information Science and Cartography	8	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED
Sociology	3	-	-	NOT OFFERED

Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences

what is Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Athletic Training/Trainer	7	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling	3	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Mental Health Counseling/Counselor	4	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Pharmaceutics and Drug Design	-	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Public Health	5	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED
Dietetics/Dietitian	3	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse	45	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Clinical Nurse Leader	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	-

Business

what is Business program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
General Merchandising, Sales, and Related Marketing Operations (other)	1	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED

Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences

what is Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Nursing Education	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	-
Family Practice Nurse/Nursing	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED	1
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	2
Clinical Nurse Leader	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	-

Agriculture

what is Agriculture program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Animal Sciences	-	-	-	NOT OFFERED
Dairy Science	-	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Food Science	-	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Agronomy and Crop Science	-	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Veterinary Microbiology and Immunobiology	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Veterinary Pathology and Pathobiology	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

Natural Resources and Conservation

what is Natural Resources and Conservation program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Natural Resources/Conservation	-	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Environmental Science	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Management	-	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

Computer and Information Sciences

what is Computer and Information Sciences program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Computer and Information Sciences	-	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

Engineering

what is Engineering program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Agricultural Engineering	-	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Civil Engineering	-	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Electrical and Electronics Engineering	-	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Mechanical Engineering	-	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

Work and Family Studies

what is Work and Family Studies program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Human Nutrition	-	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

what is Biological and Biomedical Sciences program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Biology/Biological Sciences	-	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Biochemistry	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Molecular Biology	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Plant Molecular Biology	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Microbiology	-	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

Mathematics and Statistics

what is Mathematics and Statistics program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Computational Mathematics	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

Physical Sciences

what is Physical Sciences program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Chemistry	-	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

Social Sciences

what is Social Sciences program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Sociology	-	-	-	NOT OFFERED

Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences

what is Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences program?

Program	Master's	Doctorate	Post-BS	Post-MS
Pharmaceutics and Drug Design	-	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse	-	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Pharmacy	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Family Practice Nurse/Nursing	NOT OFFERED	-	NOT OFFERED	-

Graduate Student Population

Total 11,465 students enrolled in South Dakota State University including both undergraduate and graduate programs, with full-time and part-time status.

In graduate school, 1,618 students are enrolled to earn graduate degrees. By gender, it has 603 male and 1,015 female graduate students. By attending status, there are 532 full-time and 1,086 part-time students in graduate schools.

It offers online degree programs and 406 students enrolled to earn their graduate degree through online exclusively and 217 students are taking some online graduate courses.

Graduate Students Gender Distribution
Total	1,618
Men Students	603
Women Students	1,015

Graduate Students Attending Status Distribution
Total	1,618
Full-time Students	532
Part-time Students	1,086

By race/ethnicity 1,125 White, 21 Black, and 21 Asian students are attending at South Dakota State University. The detail graduate enrollment distribution by race is shown in the below chart.

Graduate Students Race Distribution
Total	1,618
American Indian / Native American	18
Asian	21
Black	21
Hispanic	38
Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander	3
White	1,125
Two or more races	23
Un-Known	38

Distance learning, also called online education, is very attractive to students, especially those who want to continue education and work in the field. At South Dakota State University, 406 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 217 students are enrolled in some online courses.

Graduate Distance Learning Enrollment Distribution
Total Enrollment	1,410
Enrolled Exclusively in Online Courses	406
Enrolled in Some But Not All Online Courses	217
Not Enrolled In Any Online Courses	787

Graduate Distance Learning Enrollment By Student Location
Enrolled Exclusively in Online Courses	406
South Dakota Resident	269
Other State In U.S.	133
Outside of U.S.	4

Graduate School Tuition at South Dakota State University