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

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General Engineering is the 96th most popular major in the country with 9,018 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across South Dakota, there were 8 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,795 and $0 respectively.

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

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

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

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

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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 #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in South Dakota list. South Dakota State is a fairly large school located in Brookings, South Dakota that handed out 6 masters’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full South Dakota State University General Engineering Report

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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 #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in South Dakota. SD Mines is located in Rapid City, South Dakota and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 masters’s engineering degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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 Rémi Kaupp.