2024 Best Information Technology Schools in South Dakota
3Colleges in South Dakota
239IT Degrees Awarded
$38,417Avg Early-Career Salary
Information Technology is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #42 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Information Technology Schools in South Dakota ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 239 degrees in information technology to qualified students.
Your choice of information technology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Information Technology School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Information Technology Schools in South Dakota list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Information Technology in South Dakota
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the it degrees they offer, see the list below.
It is hard to beat Dakota State University if you wish to pursue a degree in information technology. Located in the distant town of Madison, Dakota State is a public university with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #466 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Dakota State is a great university overall.
Those information technology students who get their degree from Dakota State University make $11,566 more than the typical it student.
It is difficult to beat Southeast Technical College if you wish to pursue a degree in information technology. Located in the rural area of Sioux Falls, Southeast Tech is a public college with a small student population. This college ranks 10th out of 13 colleges for overall quality in the state of South Dakota.
Degree recipients from the information technology degree program at Southeast Technical College get $4,074 more than the standard college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
It's hard to beat National American University - Rapid City if you want to pursue a degree in information technology. Located in the city of Rapid City, National American University - Rapid City is a private for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 9th out of 13 colleges for overall quality in the state of South Dakota.
After graduation, it degree recipients usually make about $35,810 in the first five years of their career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
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Your choice of information technology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Information Technology School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
