2025 Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in South Dakota

Electrical Engineering is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #25 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in South Dakota to determine which ones were the best for electrical engineering students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 40 bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to electrical engineering students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other electrical engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized electrical engineering related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for electrical engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Electrical Engineering Schools

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 Electrical Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in South Dakota list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Electrical Engineering in South Dakota

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering.

Top South Dakota Schools for a Bachelor's in EE

1

South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

12 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat South Dakota State University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. Located in the town of Brookings, South Dakota State is a public university with a large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from South Dakota State University

2

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Rapid City, SD

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

28 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat South Dakota School of Mines and Technology if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. Located in the city of Rapid City, SD Mines is a public school with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Best Electrical Engineering Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	475	237
Minnesota	446	212
Iowa	403	169
Kansas	352	78
Nebraska	331	57
North Dakota	251	95

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Rankings in Majors Related to EE

One of 3 majors within the Electrical Engineering area of study, Electrical Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to NASA. More about our data sources and methodologies.