2023 Most Well Attended Engineering Tech Major in South Dakota for a Master’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Engineering Tech Major in South Dakota for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Engineering Technologies is the 20th most popular major in the country with 85,188 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, engineering technologies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $52,350 and had an average of $21,560 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 253 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,161 and $15,223 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 20 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,795 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Engineering Tech Major in South Dakota for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering technologies. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in engineering technologies.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Engineering Tech Major in South Dakota for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Engineering Tech Major in South Dakota for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies in South Dakota

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South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Rapid City, South Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Engineering Tech Major in South Dakota for a Master’s. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is located in Rapid City, South Dakota and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 17 masters’s engineering tech degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Engineering Technologies Report

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South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota

#1 overall quality in South Dakota

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Engineering Tech Major in South Dakota for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Brookings, South Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering tech degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Engineering Technologies at South Dakota State

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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.

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