2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies in South Dakota

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In 2019-2020, 86,730 people earned their degree in engineering technologies, making the major the 19th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, engineering technologies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $46,894 and had an average of $21,178 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 243 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent engineering technologies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

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

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Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota

The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota master’s degree engineering tech students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies in South Dakota

#1

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Rapid City, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$19,250 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Rapid City, South Dakota, and it awarded 15 masters’s engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

SD Mines also made our “Best Engineering Technologies Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at SD Mines are $19,250, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Engineering Technologies at SD Mines

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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

• *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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