2022 Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Civil Engineering is the 45th most popular major in the country with 21,561 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, civil engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $60,122 and had an average of $23,807 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 115 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,650 and $27,100 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 85 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in civil engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent civil engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the civil engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The civil eng school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota”.

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Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in South Dakota

#1

South Dakota State University

Brookings, South Dakota

#2 in overall quality

$19,252 Average Net Price

$58,943 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota State University landed the #1 spot on the list. South Dakota State University is a fairly large school located in Brookings, South Dakota that handed out 36 bachelors’s civil eng degrees in 2019-2020.

South Dakota State also took the #2 spot in our “Best Civil Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” ranking. The yearly cost to attend South Dakota State is $19,252 for south dakota bachelor’s degree civil eng students.

The low student loan default rate of 3.8% 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 State University Civil Engineering Report

#2

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Rapid City, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$19,815 Average Net Price

$59,874 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Dakota list. This small school is located in Rapid City, South Dakota, and it awarded 49 bachelors’s civil eng degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at SD Mines, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Civil Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” ranking. It costs about $19,815 for south dakota bachelor’s degree civil eng students per year to attend SD Mines.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full SD Mines Civil Engineering Report

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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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