Engineering at University of South Dakota

If you plan to study engineering, take a look at what University of South Dakota has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

USD is located in Vermillion, South Dakota and approximately 9,459 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

USD Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
• Master’s Degree in Engineering

Online Classes Are Available at USD

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? USD offers distance education options for engineering at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

USD Engineering Rankings

The engineering major at USD is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Engineering. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

There were 1 student who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #222 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at USD

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the engineering majors at University of South Dakota.

USD Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 100% of engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 0% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of South Dakota with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

USD Engineering Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 67% of engineering master's degrees went to men and 33% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of South Dakota with a master's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	3
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Concentrations Within Engineering

Engineering majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at University of South Dakota. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Biomedical Engineering	5

Related Majors

• Science Technologies / Technicians
• Mathematics & Statistics
• Physical Sciences
• Biological & Biomedical Sciences

Careers That Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in engineering can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for SD, the home state for University of South Dakota.

Occupation	Jobs in SD	Average Salary in SD
Civil Engineers	1,140	$77,030
Software Applications Developers	1,010	$75,000
Cost Estimators	850	$54,860
Systems Software Developers	660	$90,430
Industrial Engineers	560	$82,780

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Ammodramus under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.