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

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on EE Major in South Dakota” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Electrical Engineering is the 39th most popular major in the country with 28,844 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, electrical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $74,380 and had an average of $24,114 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 75 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $68,428 and $28,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,795 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on EE Major in South Dakota” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in electrical engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their electrical engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Electrical 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 EE 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 school located in Rapid City, South Dakota that handed out 16 masters’s EE 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 Electrical Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

2

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 EE Major in South Dakota list. South Dakota State is a fairly large public school situated in Brookings, South Dakota. It awarded 5 masters’s EE 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 full report on Electrical 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.

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