2023 Best Value Engineering Schools in South Dakota

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

Finding the Best Engineering School for You

In 2020-2021, engineering students earned 569 degrees and certificates from a South Dakota school, making the subject the 6th in the state.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. 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 assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Engineering Schools in South Dakota ranking.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Check out the engineering programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Engineering School

#1

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Rapid City, SD

377 Degrees

$12,110 Average Tuition & Fees

$61,253 Average Salary

Our 2023 rankings named South Dakota School of Mines and Technology the best value school in South Dakota for engineering students. Located in the small city of Rapid City, SD Mines is a public college with a small student population.

SD Mines undergraduate students pay an average of $12,110 in in-state tuition and fees each year. After completing their degree, engineering graduates from SD Mines carry an average student debtload of $28,325. Assuming that a graduate chooses a 10-year repayment plan, the average monthly loan payment is $251.

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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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Petty Officer 3rd Class Declan Barnes.

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