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South Dakota School of Mines and Technology was awarded 26 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is general mechanical engineering.
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SD Mines was not ranked in College Factual's 2025 Best Overall Colleges report. This could be for a number of reasons, including lack of data.
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South Dakota School of Mines and Technology has an acceptance rate of 83%, which makes it somewhat selective. Make sure it's not the only school you apply to, even if it's your school of choice. Whether you get in or not will largely depend on how you compare to other applicants.
About 26% of students accepted to SD Mines submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 570 and 680. Math scores were between 590 and 698.
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The student to faculty ratio is often used to measure the number of teaching resources that a college or university offers its students. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1, but at SD Mines it is much better at 12 to 1. That's good news for students who want to interact more on a personal level with their teachers.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is 88%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology has a freshmen retention rate of 83%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
When we say that a student has graduated on time, we mean that they have finished their bachelor's degree within four years. The on-time graduation rate at SD Mines is 19%. That's lower than the national rate of 33.3%
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,146 undergraduates at SD Mines with 1,701 being full-time and 445 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $16,154 | $17,404 | $21,382 | $22,665 | $22,983 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of SD Mines, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At SD Mines, approximately 55% of students took out student loans averaging $7,854 a year. That adds up to $31,416 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for SD Mines are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 501 E Saint Joseph St, Rapid City, SD 57701-3995 |
| Phone: | 605-394-2511 |
| Website: | https://www.sdsmt.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 110 | $69,667 |
| Civil Engineering | 76 | $68,755 |
| Industrial Engineering | 46 | $70,216 |
| Electrical Engineering | 45 | $73,551 |
| Chemical Engineering | 33 | $72,785 |
| Computer Information Systems | 32 | $78,193 |
| Mining Engineering | 23 | $90,514 |
| Computer Engineering | 17 | $72,639 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 16 | NA |
| Geoscience Engineering | 16 | NA |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 363 students took at least one online class at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. This is a decrease from the 371 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 363 | 107 |
| 2021-2022 | 371 | 112 |
| 2020-2021 | 2,079 | 265 |
| 2018-2019 | 136 | 64 |
Learn more about online learning at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
Footnotes
*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.
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