by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual recognizes the best colleges and universities in its annual rankings. These rankings include categories for best overall colleges, best colleges for each major, best value schools, and much more.
Southeast Technical College was awarded 34 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is emergency medical technology/technician (emt paramedic).
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College Factual ranked Southeast Tech as #482 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Southeast Tech held the #868 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 13 colleges in South Dakota, Southeast Tech is ranked at #4.
If you are worried about getting into Southeast Technical College, don't be. The school has a liberal open admissions policy, which means you only need to meet basic requirements in order to be admitted. Still, be sure to submit a complete application and provide any other requested materials.
The student to faculty ratio is often used to measure the number of teaching resources that a college or university offers its students. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1, but at Southeast Tech it is much better at 11 to 1. That's good news for students who want to interact more on a personal level with their teachers.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Southeast Technical College is 33%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate tells us what percentage of first-year, full-time students choose to continue on to their sophomore year at a particular school. The rate at Southeast Technical College is 72%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,330 undergraduates at Southeast Tech with 1,205 being full-time and 1,125 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $15,748 | $16,439 | $16,676 | $17,410 | $19,061 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of Southeast Tech, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At Southeast Tech, approximately 53% of students took out student loans averaging $6,836 a year. That adds up to $27,344 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Southeast Tech are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 2320 N Career Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57107-1301 |
| Phone: | 605-367-7624 |
| Website: | www.southeasttech.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants | 88 | NA |
| General Business/Commerce | 56 | NA |
| Allied Health Professions | 54 | NA |
| Nursing | 50 | NA |
| Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation & Refrigeration | 43 | NA |
| Other Computer & Information Sciences | 40 | NA |
| Vehicle Maintenance & Repair | 37 | NA |
| Information Technology | 32 | NA |
| Accounting | 30 | NA |
| Computer Programming | 28 | NA |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2022-2023, 996 students took at least one online class at Southeast Technical College. This is a decrease from the 1,013 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 996 | 401 |
| 2021-2022 | 1,013 | 475 |
| 2020-2021 | 1,039 | 462 |
| 2018-2019 | 830 | 219 |
Learn more about online learning at Southeast Technical College.
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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