2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Biomedical Engineering in South Dakota

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In 2020-2021, 12,811 people earned their degree in biomedical engineering, making the major the 71st most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, biomedical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $59,445 and had an average of $22,702 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 16 biomedical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 biomedical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,795 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in South Dakota” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biomedical engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in biomedical engineering.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in South Dakota

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Biomedical Engineering in South Dakota

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

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major 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. SD Mines is a small public school situated in Rapid City, South Dakota. It awarded 7 masters’s bio engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Biomedical Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota

#5 overall quality in South Dakota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bio Engineering Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Dakota landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Vermillion, South Dakota, this medium-sized public school handed out 4 degrees to qualified masters’s bio engineering students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Biomedical Engineering at USD

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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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to UC Davis College of Engineering.