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

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Civil Engineering is the 50th most popular major in the country with 21,388 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, civil engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $63,364 and had an average of $24,364 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 110 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,338 and $27,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 27 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 Civil Eng Major in South Dakota” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in civil engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in civil engineering.

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

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

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

1

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 Civil Eng 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. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is a small school located in Rapid City, South Dakota that handed out 16 masters’s civil eng degrees in 2020-2021.

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%.

Read full report on Civil Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota

#1 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in South Dakota list. South Dakota State University is a fairly large public school situated in Brookings, South Dakota. It awarded 11 masters’s civil eng degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Civil Engineering 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.

Credits

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