2025 Best Information Technology Schools in South Dakota
3Colleges in South Dakota
239IT Degrees Awarded
$61,212Avg 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 2025 Best Information Technology Schools in South Dakota ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 239 degrees in information technology annually.
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 difficult to beat Dakota State University if you want to pursue a degree in information technology. Located in the town of Madison, Dakota State is a public university with a small student population. This university ranks 6th out of 13 colleges for overall quality in the state of South Dakota.
There were about 178.00000000000003 information technology students who graduated with this degree at Dakota State in the most recent year we have data available. Graduates who receive their degree from the it program make about $58,166 in the first couple years of their career.
It is difficult to beat Southeast Technical College if you wish to pursue a degree in information technology. Southeast Tech is a small public college located in the city of Sioux Falls. A Best Colleges rank of #482 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Southeast Tech is a great college overall.
There were about 32 information technology students who graduated with this degree at Southeast Tech in the most recent data year. Students who receive their degree from the it program make about $42,439 for their early career.
Mitchell Technical College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in information technology. Mitchell Tech is a small public college located in the remote town of Mitchell. This college ranks 8th out of 13 schools for overall quality in the state of South Dakota.
There were roughly 8 information technology students who graduated with this degree at Mitchell Tech in the most recent year we have data available.
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.
