2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Civil Engineering Major in South Dakota

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General Civil Engineering is the 41st most popular major in the country with 20,711 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across South Dakota, there were 110 general civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 27 general civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,795 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Civil Engineering Major in South Dakota” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general civil engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general civil engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Civil Engineering Major in South Dakota”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Civil Engineering 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 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Civil Engineering Major in South Dakota. Rapid City, South Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s general civil engineering degrees to 16 students 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%.

Full South Dakota School of Mines and Technology General Civil Engineering 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 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Civil Engineering Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota State University landed the #2 spot on the list. South Dakota State is a public institution located in Brookings, South Dakota. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 11 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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 General Civil Engineering at South Dakota State University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Civil Engineering in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Civil Engineering

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

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