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2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$10,705 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$68,428 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Electrical Engineering School for You

Electrical Engineering is the #36 most popular major in South Dakota with 75 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Electrical Engineering Schools in South Dakota to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in South Dakota to see which ones offered the best value programs for EE students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Schools in South Dakota

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Electrical Engineering Colleges.

Best South Dakota Schools for Affordable Quality in Electrical Engineering

$9,299 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named South Dakota State University the best value school in South Dakota for electrical engineering students. South Dakota State is a large public school located in the town of Brookings.

South Dakota State undergraduate students pay an average of $9,299 in in-state tuition and fees each year. On average, EE graduates from South Dakota State take out $30,000 in student loans while working on their degree.

South Dakota State also made our Best Electrical Engineering Schools in South Dakota list, coming in at #2.

Full Electrical Engineering at South Dakota State University Report

$12,110 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Schools in South Dakota list. SD Mines is a small public school located in the small city of Rapid City.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at SD Mines are $12,110 a year. The average amount in student loans that EE majors at SD Mines take out is $27,000.

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

Best Value Electrical Engineering Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Electrical Engineering Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 425
Minnesota 341
Kansas 110
Iowa 169
Nebraska 74
North Dakota 111

Electrical Engineering is one of 40 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to EE

Related Major Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering 46,178
Civil Engineering 21,388
Computer Engineering 17,987
Chemical Engineering 12,917
Biomedical Engineering 12,811

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to NASA.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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