2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Industrial & Management Engineering 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. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Industrial & Management Engineering is the 147th most popular major in the country with 5,633 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across South Dakota, there were 34 industrial and management engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 industrial and management engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in industrial and management engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent industrial and management engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the industrial and management engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota master’s degree industrial management students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Industrial & Management Engineering in South Dakota (With Aid)

#1

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Rapid City, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$19,250 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid list. SD Mines is located in Rapid City, South Dakota and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 15 masters’s industrial management degrees to qualified students.

SD Mines not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Industrial & Management Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology are $19,250, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#2

South Dakota State University

Brookings, South Dakota

$16,743 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Dakota State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Getting Aid. Located in Brookings, South Dakota, this fairly large public school awarded 2 degrees to qualified masters’s industrial management students in 2019-2020.

South Dakota State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #0 on our “Best Industrial & Management Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at South Dakota State are $16,743, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Industrial & Management Engineering (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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