2024 Best Civil Engineering Schools in South Dakota
2Colleges in South Dakota
110Civil Eng Degrees Awarded
$60,338Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in civil engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #50 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in South Dakota to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of civil engineering. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 110 degrees in civil engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Civil Engineering Schools in South Dakota list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Civil Engineering in South Dakota
The schools below may not offer all types of civil eng degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is a great choice for students interested in a degree in civil engineering. SD Mines is a small public school located in the city of Rapid City.
Degree recipients from the civil engineering program at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology earn $2,070 more than the standard graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
Any student who is interested in civil engineering needs to look into South Dakota State University. South Dakota State is a large public university located in the remote town of Brookings.
Students who graduate with their degree from the civil eng program state that they receive average early career wages of $58,268.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).