2024 Best Value Bachelor's Degree Colleges for Engineering in South Dakota
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12,287Bachelor's Degrees
$23,544Avg Cost*
Finding the Best Value Engineering School for You
In 2021-2022, engineering students earned 12,287 bachelor's degrees from a South Dakota school, making the subject the 4th in the state. This means that colleges and universities in the state were responsible for awarding 0.2% of all the engineering bachelor's degrees in the country.
When talking about the 'best value', we do not simply mean those with the lowest price. We are more focused on engineering schools that offer a high quality education at a price lower that other schools of similar academic excellence.
When calculating average cost, we take tuition, fees, room and board, books and supplies, and other related expenses into account. We then subtract the average financial aid award. The is meant to give you an idea of how much money you'll need to pay out-of-pocket through loans, external scholarships, or other methods. Your cost may be different from the average one, depending on your income and other factors.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Value Engineering Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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2024 Best Value Engineering School in South Dakota
The following school tops our list of the Best Engineering Colleges for the Money.
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology comes in at #1 in this year's ranking. SD Mines is a small public school located in the small city of Rapid City. SD Mines did well in our quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Engineering Schools in South Dakota list.
It takes the average student at SD Mines about 4.8 years to graduate, and the yearly average cost to attend the school is $23,544. Putting this cost and the average time to graduate together, we find that the average amount you’ll pay to get a bachelor’s degree from SD Mines is $113,718. When you graduate sooner, you can save a lot of money.
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).