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2023 Best Value Geoscience Engineering Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$12,110 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$55,327 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Geoscience Engineering School for You

Geoscience Engineering is the #91 most popular major in South Dakota with 25 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 can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Geoscience Engineering Schools in South Dakota ranking.

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.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Geoscience Engineering Colleges.

Best Geoscience Engineering School

$12,110 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named South Dakota School of Mines and Technology the best value school in South Dakota for geoscience engineering students. SD Mines is a small public school located in the city of Rapid City.

SD Mines undergraduate students pay an average of $12,110 in in-state tuition and fees each year. The average amount in student loans that geoscience engineering majors at SD Mines take out is $30,750.

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

Best Value Geoscience Engineering Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 140
Minnesota 7
North Dakota 5

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

Related Major Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering 46,178
Electrical Engineering 28,844
Civil Engineering 21,388
Computer Engineering 17,987
Chemical Engineering 12,917

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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