2023 Most Popular Colleges for Agricultural Mechanization in South Dakota

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Ag Mech Major in South Dakota” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Agricultural Mechanization is the 252nd most popular major in the country with 1,280 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, ag mechanization graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $45,820 and had an average of $17,584 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 50 ag mechanization graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,159 and $17,125 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Ag Mech Major in South Dakota” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in ag mechanization. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in ag mechanization.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Ag Mech Major in South Dakota

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Ag Mech Major in South Dakota”.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Agricultural Mechanization in South Dakota

1

Mitchell Technical College
Mitchell, South Dakota

#7 overall quality in South Dakota

$40,678 Average Early-Career Earnings

$12,708 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Ag Mech Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, Mitchell Technical College landed the #1 spot on the list. Mitchell Technical College is a small public school situated in Mitchell, South Dakota. It awarded 32 ’s ag mech degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Mitchell Tech Agricultural Mechanization Report

2

South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota

#1 overall quality in South Dakota

$45,741 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,549 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Ag Mech Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota State University landed the #2 spot on the list. South Dakota State is a fairly large school located in Brookings, South Dakota that handed out 18 ’s ag mech degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Agricultural Mechanization at South Dakota State University

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

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