2022 Best Value Colleges for Drafting & Design Engineering Technology in South Dakota (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Drafting & Design Engineering Technology is the 142nd most popular major in the country with 9,770 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, drafting and design engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $37,947 and had an average of $20,124 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 14 drafting and design engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in drafting and design engineering technology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality drafting and design engineering technology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the drafting and design engineering technology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Drafting & Design Engineering Technology in South Dakota (With Aid)

#1

Southeast Technical College

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$14,633 Average Net Price

$31,975 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southeast Technical College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid. This small school is located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and it awarded 8 ’s design engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Southeast Tech also took the #1 spot in our “Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Schools in South Dakota” ranking. It costs about $14,633 for South Dakota Design Engineering Tech students with aid per year to attend Southeast Tech.

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#2

Western Dakota Technical Institute

Rapid City, South Dakota

#2 in overall quality

$14,388 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Dakota Technical Institute. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid list. Western Dakota Tech is a small school located in Rapid City, South Dakota that handed out 6 ’s design engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our south dakota design engineering tech students with aid list, Western Dakota Tech has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Schools in South Dakota” ranking. It costs about $14,388 for south dakota design engineering tech students with aid per year to attend Western Dakota Tech.

Read more about Drafting & Design Engineering Technology at Western Dakota Technical Institute

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• Best Value Colleges for Drafting & Design Engineering Technology (With Aid)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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